> It's not a slow process, and the time to decide what this application will > do IS now. Not later when there's code written and changes are even harder. > But now. While nothing is carved in bits. Because the longer you wait, the > harder it gets.
I disagree with your assessment that it's not a slow process. I guess it depends on your definition of slow... Most of us on this list don't know each other. We communicated for the first time when Brent mustered interested people via his blog. I've never worked on an email client before and I bet that's true for the majority here. (Actually, a lie: I've written a POP3 client in PHP. But I don't think that counts!) For example, you seem surprised that some of us don't know much about IMAP: "Based on what I see about how people think IMAP works, I'm not holding my breath on that part." Why are you surprised? Before I joined this list I'd not really ever considered writing something that used IMAP. Now, along with everyone else, we're in the phase where we learn about this stuff, learn what's possible, and how it all works. But I have a job that takes up most of my time, so I haven't spent the last two weeks pouring over protocol specs. Given that this is a free time project I'd expect to spend at least a couple of months learning. I guess what I'm trying to say is the feature set _is_ going to change as we learn more about how this stuff works. There will be things that people wrote off as unfeasible at first and actually aren't too bad, and there will be others that seemed trivial and took too long. So any list of features we agree on are bound to change as the project progresses. On the specifics of your requests, there's a lot I agree with. I like the idea of doing stuff with the bits of the IMAP protocol that no-one knows exist. And I definitely agree with you that "make it a plugin" is a cop-out. It's just how your requests are phrased that I'm taking issue with. Feel free to champion your cause, to be sure, but don't imply that we're out to con people about our target market or accuse us of lying when we say that features will be considered over time. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
