Re: Tempting change..

Andreas Aardal Hanssen schrieb:
> 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.

i came to binc because its "lightweight", fast and easy setup. i never
(!) use windows as a MTA, so Binc IMAP for windows is pointless for me,
unicode is not for me either, and i'd prefer a small and quick
implementation.

> 
> 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.




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