Re: Tempting change..

On Sun, July 24, 2005 7:48 am, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
>
> The last couple of weeks, I've been tempted by adding a new dependency to
>  Binc for 1.3. The idea comes from us having to move to a more
> internationalized system, with CHARSET support in SEARCH and indexed
> searching in general. It's becoming painful.. We need unicode support.
> And
> I'd like Binc to move out of the unix-only area by isolating platform
> dependencies. Binc IMAP for Windows, that would be very interesting.
>
> So I'm thinking about Qt 4 Open Source, definitely influenced by it being
>  what I work with every day.. Qt's core library has support for some very
>  nice container classes, a cross platform file I/O API, threads, plugins
> and excellent support for translation and unicode.
>
> Maybe Qt 4 could bring Binc IMAP up from the simple server position?
> There
> are definitely not many open source cross-platform IMAP servers out there.

hmm... I don't really see what use one would have with bincimap on
windows.... I don't know of any windows MTAs that use the maildir
format...

plus... and especially in the case of gentoo users, installing Qt is a
real pain... you might lose some of your userbase.

I know you've said before you're not concerned with the size of your
userbase.. but just saying :)

Qt is really really nice though :)

ohh plus then you could also quickly make a nice gui for administration! :)

-Jeremy