Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [please subscribe to the list if you want to continue this discussion as > otherwise I have to approve each and every message from you which is both > time consuming and error-prone]
Done. > On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:39:23 -0400 David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DA> Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DA> > DA> > Well, actually I don't know why does it fall to me :-) Anybody could try > DA> > to do this, it just needs some time. The first thing to do would be to > DA> > simply try SWIG on our existing .h files. Probably it won't work, but I'm > DA> > not even sure about it. > DA> > DA> If you all are interested, I would be happy to help out with Python > DA> bindings using Boost.Python (since I happen to be intimately familiar > DA> with it). > > I know :-) The offer, coming from you, is very tempting, but the > sad truth is that we really don't have any extra resources to spend > on this, time-wise. The advantage of SWIG is that it used to work > and it shouldn't be very difficult to make it work again (it just > suffers from bit rot). Whereas Boost.Python definitely has some > advantages compared to it (SWIG has some too, of course...) we'd > need to learn it and actually do whatever is necessary to start > using it and this is simply not going to happen in near future > unless more people join the team. I *think* I might have been offering to join the team just to provide the Python binding. But given what you say about newsreader capability below I'm not sure it makes sense to do that. > DA> All I ask in return is responsiveness from the Mahogany developers > DA> for some feature requests I have. I've been dying for a decent > DA> integrated mail/newsreader, and living with GNUs as the least of > DA> several evils for a while now. ;-) > > I have some bad news for you: to be honest, Mahogany is not a decent > newsreader and although it aims to become one at version 2.0, we're still > quite far from 1.0 yet. In other words, the current focus is solely on the > mail part. News support sort of works (last time I tried it, anyhow) but I > certainly don't recommend using it as a primary newsreader. As usual, the > problem is not that we don't want to make it a great newsreader as well, > but that we have to choose priorities carefully considering the limited > resources we have. OK, I'll wait patiently for now... -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
