Re: Tempting change..

Hello,

Sorry I lost the original message, hence the bad order.

Andreas started this thread with...

> 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.  
> AndI'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?  
> Thereare definitely not many open source cross-platform IMAP servers out  
> there.
>Open for comments..
>

Binc's stated "goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and  
easy to maintain." (http://www.bincimap.org/).  How does the proposed  
change measure up to each of these 3 (or is it 5) stated goals?

My real observation is be careful of the potential that the issues of Binc  
running on one platform may affect its reputation running on another  
platform (or overall reputation).

Henry:-)