Re: Status of version 5?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:00:55PM +0100, Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
> >As for nnimap, I don't plan to implement that myself.  However, I would
> >be pleased to apply a repository/nnmaildir.py and folder/nnmaildir.py
> >patch to the source tree.
> >
> Pity. Unfortunately I don't know python, nor du I hva the time to learn 
> (wish I did) so I probably won't be of much help here.

Well, the main reason I wrote OfflineIMAP was because I loved the
features of Gnus, but considered it too slow and buggy to use, I'm
probably not going to be using it again anytime soon :-)

Unless it is really easy to support nnmaildir... (I really don't kow
how it works; if it's only trivially different than what we do now, that
would be doable.)

Python is not hard to learn; if you already grok a couple of programming
languages, especially object-oriented ones, you can probably pick it up
in an hour or two.  Grokking Twisted and IMAP actually take longer, I
think.  :-)

In fact, I dare say it's probably the easiest language I've learned yet.

-- John