Hi, sorry for joining this discussion (and the mailing list) late.
On 15/07/2008 13:38 Julien Kerihuel wrote:
1. Are you willing to develop this Web UI from scratch or integrate an existing WebMail solution (RoundCube etc.)?
I think doing it from scratch is a good idea for a number of reasons. Personally I'm not happy with the direction of PHP architecture, and I think OpenChange is a good platform to leverage a more monolithic structure like Python or RoR. Certainly though, there are good things to learn in Roundcube (which we use at the moment, and I've been mildly involved with)
The benefit IMHO for Python with the Twisted framework is Divmod's Quotient project that already exists. There is probably a lot of experience within the Nevow group and I'm sure many people there would be interested in being involved.
The other reason I think a more monolithic design has advantages is that it can scale connections better with user load by pooling resources (like connections to MAPI store) on a single connection or at the least, it can pool it for a users session life rather than the duration which they render a page.
2. Do you already have technologies in mind? libmapi bindings for a specific language or process openchangeclient output (e.g. Gary Rigg work on OpenChange/SugarCrm integration).
I've already said in IRC a while back that we (Thusa) will definitely be using Python with libmapi, regardless of what the webmail portion winds up being done in. Apparently Python is an easy target for IDL.
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