What to do about libc-client (imap)?
Paul Jakma
paul at dishone.st
Sat Oct 2 18:28:18 UTC 2004
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Warren Togami wrote:
> But why do we keep php-imap? NOTHING we ship uses it.
> squirrelmail long ago decided php-imap was unreliable and made
> their own implementation.
>
> Our forced attempts to get rid of imap in FC2 were done in a
> confusing manner which remains both a support burden for us, and a
> huge point of frustration to users. [1] To make matters worse,
> 'libc-client' is a confusing name which is too similar to 'glibc',
> and meaningless to all developers.
>
> Is this really worth more years of headache? Here are two
> proposals to deal with this.
As a 'user' of c-lib (via PINE, not shipped in FC), I'd say the
uwimap-libs makes most sense. Indeed, remove it all together.
As an aside, is there any /decent/ C IMAP client library out there?
regards,
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