I think OpenOffice is about developer freedom to do what he wants to do. If a someone shows up and wants to do an email client, then let him.
Even if the project spins off into its own realm because there are only little things that both benefit from. I do not believe any harm is done by that. I do not have to believe in the client in order to support this. I just have to be curious where other OpenOffice modules could benefit from features an email client would bring. And then is the trick to do this right. I have already some ideas. BTW, we use a lot of dynamic libraries. This is a clear hint that OpenOffice is not monolithic. Just the Architecture is not understood, or wrong designed / used. A monolithic build would only consist of static linked libraries. (According to the book Clean Architecture) All the best Peter On 28.01.19 00:25, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Peter Kovacs wrote: >> I think the request for a OpenOffice Mail Client has been placed >> repeatedly over time. > > Yes, but it is due to a misleading analogy with what Microsoft does > (or used to do) by incorporating a mail client into their Office suite. > > The main mission of OpenOffice focuses on office productivity, and I > think we are still good at that. The code is very monolithic and an > external solution (Thunderbird being a natural choice) is more or less > the only option that makes sense. > >> To be clear: This is a more year effort. > > E-mail has moved to the cloud much faster than office productivity. > Honestly, if we ever were to announce that OpenOffice would start > actions for including a mail client in the (not immediate) future, > this would be irrelevant to most people even among our own users. > > In short, I think adding an e-mail client never made sense, and that > this was irrelevant even when it was actually in the suite (not named > OpenOffice yet), but it is even more irrelevant now. > > If someone is going to join to help with creating an e-mail module, it > would be better to put those energies to better use. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
