Re: [Syllable-developer] libsylph - Whisper and archiver

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:01 -0700, Rui Caridade wrote:
> While i was looking for ways to add imap support to Whisper,the easy
> way, i came across this lib -
> http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/download.html#libsylph .
> It supports imap, pop3, smtp and its only dependencies are glib and
> openssl. My question does it dependency on glib mean Whisper be
> rewritten to use this lib as a backend? It would mean a big boost in
> terms of funcionality.
> Can glib be included in the Syllable cd?

Its dependency on Glib discounts entirely from inclusion in Syllable.
I'm also a bit attached to libpop3 & libsmtp.

Looking at the example code for SMTP & POP3 the API & functionality is
very close to libpop3 & libsmtp anyway, so other than a few features
they currently do not support (SSL support, mostly) Whisper wouldn't
gain anything.

I'll also point out that IMAP support is perfectly possible with
Whisper: it just requires a suitable plugin to provide an IMAP mailbox.
It's just that no-one has written one yet. As a stop-gap, it would seem
feasible to write one on top of libsylph until we have an implementation
that doesn't depend on Glib, or find some way to negate the dependency.

> Like i said on the forum i've ported avfs which gives us support for
> most of the formats , through command line wrappers. Is avfs ok, or
> would be a C++ rewrite of the code , present on archiver, giving us a
> nice API to handle this kind of formats?

I believe Rick has plans, but I don't know whether they include AVFS.
Rick?

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Vanders
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