Danny Angus wrote:
On 1/2/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a way really similar to Danny's "Mailet API sandbox" this is thought
as an experiment to create a strawman implementation to talk about later.
Great stuff guys, this approach certainly got the debate started about
the mailet api.
If I can make a request can you keep the issues you look at separate,
so that we can discuss them one at a time? IOW try not to commit
changes which are related to two different experiments.
d.
Hi Danny, unfortunately we started the issues together because they are
really tightly related.
As an example the Hook stuff is linked to the CommandHandler changes.
The CommandHandler changes have been needed to support asynchronous IO
(push based). The cleanup is a core part of understanding and refactoring.
So I think we can't separate them in the current experiment. But maybe
that once we'll feel more confortable with the sandbox we'll be able to
better understand what we did on each "side" and maybe we'll understand
that we can split back the changes or better understand what are the
dependencies between the issues.
Every of that issues changed at least 1/3rd of the smtpserver package
and the whole sandbox is probably almost a complete rewrite. So this
will for sure require more discussion/review later.
I never intended to obfuscate what we did on that branch. The sandbox is
there from only 10 days: we probably would have written something in the
next weeks if not queried before. 10 days in this project are almost an
"instant".
I'm happy to reply to questions and to hear alternative opinions. I just
wanted to not repeat past error to write long proposal before working on
the issue and to understand after few weeks that the proposal was not
really implementable because of concrete issues.
I consider SVN diffs and code as like as english mailing list messages
for a discussion. For a developer a diff is one of the most concrete
discussion to put on the table: this decrease a lot the 'I don't mean
what do you mean with xxxxxxx, can you elaborate?'.
Stefano
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