Re: considering to remove ext/imap from master

From: Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:47:29 +0000
Subject: Re: considering to remove ext/imap from master
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Hi! > Before I go with a RFC and all that, I would like to check the current > feeling about killing ext/imap. The c-client project is dead since > quite some time already. I do not see any viable alternative > (applicable to server side usages) and it would be very hard to > maintain the same APIs, given the little mess in the imap's API. Whatever mess it is, tons of code is using it, and isn't going to move to Zend Framework any time soon (and roundcube is GPL which means it's unusable for many projects). So dropping it means these projects will never be able to upgrade. Now, what would such move give us? Is there any problem with imap now? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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