Re: [SM-DEVEL] Apple's new webmail system

[Paul J. T. <cap...@sq...>]

bryan stalcup said:
> so where does the effort to modularize squirrelmail stand? i
> personally am listed on the dev team, but haven't been at all
> involved since i first found squirrelmail and decided it needed a
> delete/move/next
> functionality. i wrote the original plugin (actually, now listed
> as originated by tyler akins, i think). it was a total hack,
> didn't work well. i didn't know enough about the structure of
> squirrelmail, and it seemed so messy, i just didn't want to take
> the time to figure it all out. somebody else (ben brillat, i
> think) took over where i left off, and eventually it worked well.
>
> but i'm very interested in contributing to the effort to make
> squirrelmail modular a la zookeeper. i think i could actually
> come to understand everything if it were structured well, and i
> would love to contribute some man-hours to helping in that arena.

I am hard at work, coding like a drunken banshee to get Zookeeper
out the door. Tonight, I worked about 4 to 5 hours on it and got (I
believe) the core pretty cleaned up, though not REtested. I will be
working tomorrow on either a configuration or contacts (addressbook)
service.
Stay tuned. The future is at hand.

/me, feeling melodramatic... :)

Paul

> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 15:17, Paul Joseph Thompson wrote:
>> In short, we gotta handle first things first - and whether that
>> is Zookeeper or some other scheme to clean up/modularize the
>> backend code, it HAS HAS HAS to come before pretty UI work.

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