Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-18 Thread Ilja Booij
Paul J Stevens wrote: Aaron Stone wrote: Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > Actually, some kind of UML redesign would really help cleanup the code base (_ic_fetch, aarrrgh) and provide a better handle for developing modules such as this. I know Dan was blasted for suggesti

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Paul J Stevens
Aaron Stone wrote: Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > Actually, some kind of UML redesign would really help cleanup the code base (_ic_fetch, aarrrgh) and provide a better handle for developing modules such as this. I know Dan was blasted for suggesting this, but I happen to

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Stone
Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > Actually, some kind of UML redesign would really help > cleanup the code base (_ic_fetch, aarrrgh) and provide a better handle for > developing modules such as this. I know Dan was blasted for suggesting this, > but I happen to agree with him on

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Stone
Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Initialisation of the char** values seems a bit rough, esp in the > __auth_get_ function which are the real workhorses of this module. > I don't see any allocation going on there at all, which explains some > of the trailing garbage I get from calls like

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Paul J Stevens
Ilja Booij wrote: We have a need for LDAP in the neartime future as well, so it's high priority work for us as well. Great, so maybe we can share the load on this... I've started building a small test suite for validating and testing this module. Looks fine so far. Of course the first bug

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Ilja Booij
Paul J Stevens wrote: I'm digging into this as we speak. The whole auth layer is not really about authentication at all, or at least not *just* about authentication. It's too bloated for that. Calling it dbmailUser, or something alike, would probably cover it better Actually, some kind of

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi Ilja, > On the other hand... It's probably more useful to release first, and fix > LDAP support later. LDAP is a big thing, and might better wait until > after release. Yes - there are always new features/enhancements/what-ever that would be nice to have in 2.0 but if everything is accepted

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Paul J Stevens
I'm digging into this as we speak. The whole auth layer is not really about authentication at all, or at least not *just* about authentication. It's too bloated for that. Calling it dbmailUser, or something alike, would probably cover it better Actually, some kind of UML redesign would reall

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Ilja Booij
Ilja Booij wrote: Aaron Stone wrote: Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (yes, flawed release engineering etc, no need to discuss that right now I think) tomorrow, August 17th (at about 4pm CET(=3pm GMT)). I'm not aware of any issues that should be resolved a

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Ilja Booij
Aaron Stone wrote: Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (yes, flawed release engineering etc, no need to discuss that right now I think) tomorrow, August 17th (at about 4pm CET(=3pm GMT)). I'm not aware of any issues that should be resolved at the moment. am I c

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-17 Thread Ilja Booij
Aaron Stone wrote: Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Pidfile stuff needs heavy cleanup. Its overbloated and overcomplicated. It breaks the one best rule of programming: Make your Code Concise and Orthogonal. It's taken from Samba, seems to work for them. Concise it may not be, bu

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Stone
Dan Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Pidfile stuff needs heavy cleanup. Its overbloated and > overcomplicated. It breaks the one best rule of programming: Make your > Code Concise and Orthogonal. It's taken from Samba, seems to work for them. Concise it may not be, but it certainly gets the jo

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-16 Thread Dan Weber
Pidfile stuff needs heavy cleanup. Its overbloated and overcomplicated. It breaks the one best rule of programming: Make your Code Concise and Orthogonal Dan On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 07:16:35PM -, Aaron Stone wrote: > Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (ye

Re: [Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Stone
Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (yes, flawed release engineering etc, no need > to discuss that right now I think) tomorrow, August 17th (at about 4pm > CET(=3pm GMT)). I'm not aware of any issues that should be resolved at > the moment. am I correct? Please co

[Dbmail-dev] heads up for rc8?

2004-08-16 Thread Ilja Booij
Hi all, I'd like to release 2.0rc8 (yes, flawed release engineering etc, no need to discuss that right now I think) tomorrow, August 17th (at about 4pm CET(=3pm GMT)). I'm not aware of any issues that should be resolved at the moment. am I correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Ilja -- Il