On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Caio Chassot <[email protected]> wrote: > I refer you back to the vision document where I see the words "lean" and > "extensible", but not "kitchen sink". > > Thunderbird has bigger problems, one of them being an inscrutable code base. > I hope the "lean" in Letters applies to both the end user application and the > source code.
There's lean, and there's "I can see too many ribs" thin. One is healthy if a bit undernourished. The other spells malnutrition and often death. Apparently it can apply to computer applications as well as animals. Show me one application, built upon this model you're touting, that has a developer following and a user base. An app where major components of functionality are derived from plugins, with the app itself acting as a traffic cop and glue to tie everything together. To head off one obvious example: Textmate doesn't count. Bundles != Plugins, at least not on the scale with which people are talking here. Building actions in various scripting and programming languages to manipulate text is one thing (albeit an awesome one, I use TM every day). Building this FrankenMail application you're trying to assemble is another. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
