Re: imaplib.py rewrite

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kaitlin,

Let me apologize for the amount of time taken in responding to your message.
I'm CCing this message to the OfflineIMAP list since some people there are
interested in this question as well.

I have a basic parser (written with Yapps2) complete, which probably
represents about 1/3 of the project.  I'd expect to have something working
within 2 months at the latest.

However, having said that, I am currently looking at some larger questions
such as whether to continue work with Python or switch to Java due to
threading constraints.  Also, Twisted (www.twistedmatrix.com) already has an
IMAP library that may prove useful for me, so I will be considering that as
well, and may scrap my own IMAP library in favor of theirs.

Your best bet to keep informed on developments is to subscribe to the
OfflineIMAP mailing list.  Instructions for doing so are at
http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/.

-- John

On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:33:57AM -0700, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood wrote:
> John --
> 
> Robin Dunn told me that you were planning on rewriting imaplib.py as 
> part of your OfflineIMAP project. 
> 
> You would be doing an enormous public service if you rewrote 
> imaplib.py!  I've recently been sniffing through various IMAP libraries 
> for use in Chandler, the Open Source Applications Foundation's email 
> program.  They *all* have limitations of one sort or another.
> 
> I realize that it'll be done when it'll be done, but I'm naturally very 
> curious about your plans.  Can you bound your plans in even very rough 
> terms?  Even at a granularity of six months or so, a schedule would be 
> interesting to us.
>