Re: RFC rampage

John DeSoi <[email protected]> writes:

> At the very least, the acl-compat module is already loadable by
> itself. This will give you sockets, processes, and a host of other
> nice utilities in a single API that works for a wide variety of Lisp
> implementations.

This sounds nice.  What do you mean by processes?  Threads?  Forking?
Do you know what implementations it will currently run on?

> Franz also has several other open source projects including XML/HTML
> parsing, DNS, SMTP/POP/IMAP.

I have looked at the imap.cl and smtp.cl and I'm less than impressed.  I
suppose the attitude is such that the author of that code expects the
application programmer using smtp.cl to ensure requirements set by
RFC2822 himself but at the very least I would expect a library to emit
warnings or errors in many instances.  One such instance would be where
any given field in the header is longer than 998 characters.

There are a number of other aspects of the code which makes me not want
to work with it, but these are more subjective opinions (if*, using
comments instead of docstrings, etc).

Erik.