Re: Ready.. Set.. Code!

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:07:01AM +0200, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> I wonder if the Exim4u guys will follow or just keep improving
> current code. Do you know anything about that?
Then, on 12/29/2010 04:12 AM, Avleen Vig wrote:
> They're on this list though.. Gordon? What do you think? :-)

Hi Rimas and Alveen,

Great to hear that Vexim development has been re-energized!

The foremost objective of the Exim4U project is to be a best-of-breed 
anti-spam solution and, as a result, Exim4U's focus will always be the 
exim and spamassassin configurations. Therefore, the front end user 
interface really isn't that important to us.  Maintaining the php code 
has proven to be a challenge in the past, especially as far as security 
is concerned, however, most of those issues have been addressed and so 
that really doesn't concern me very much anymore.  For the most part, 
modifications and additions to the php code can now be fairly easily 
implemented.  Also, I do not have any experience with Django.  A couple 
of years ago I reviewed the Django implementation for Vexim that Avleen 
and some other folks were working on and, at that time, decided that php 
would be best for what we wanted to accomplish with Exim4U.  That said, 
I am definitely a proponent of application development tools like Django 
and am open to using these types of tools in the future.  We will 
probably continue to focus our resources on best-of-breed spam 
prevention techniques with the exim and spamassassin configurations and 
wait and see how the Vexim Django project goes.  If at some time we 
think that it provides a better solution for the user interface then we 
would probably adopt it.  Otherwise, we will continue with the php code.

Even with the new more powerful application tools such as Django, there 
are still many very successful open source php projects that have opted 
to continue with php such as Horde, Squirrelmail and the Coppermine 
Photo Gallery just to name a few.  Although powerful, these new 
development tools do not necessarily offer the flexibility that is 
availability with php.

Good luck and thanks for all of your contributions to Vexim!

Gordon