Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 3.7.2012, at 8.53, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I see there is a dovecot shared library. I haven't looked into the details, but here are things I'm interested in: 1. Replacing libc-client's use as a client library .. I envision creating libdovecot-c-client-alike that is a set of headers and

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 3.7.2012, at 8.53, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I see there is a dovecot shared library. I haven't looked into the details, but here are things I'm interested in: 1. Replacing libc-client's use as a client library .. I envision creating

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 3.7.2012, at 9.18, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I'm still not ready to give ABI or even API guarantees to libdovecot.. There are still several important large changes to do and I don't really want to keep a ton of ugly backwards compatibility stuff just for external users of the library. Also

[Dovecot] Dovecot shared library to replace libc-client

2012-07-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all Dovecotters, Lots of programs (e.g, PHP) link to a library called c-client, which is a derivative of the original IMAP implementation, UW IMAP. (For those new to UW IMAP, read here: http://www.washington.edu/imap/ ) UW IMAP is not in as much of active development as it used to be, so I