From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2009-10-25T14:06:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] mail

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, James Edward Gray II
<james@graysoftinc.com> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:
> Wow, I find this library very exciting!  Thanks for sharing.

No problem.

The biggest area the library needs help is multibyte support.

In mail, _everything_ is an object, and I have tried to keep class
responsibility well defined.

There is some code smell in there, especially the multibyte support,
so everyone, expect some changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1 on how things
get handled, there is more refactoring to do, but there are a lot of
specs to ensure code coverage.

Also, mail currently parses every email in the TMail test suite
without crashing, so that says something for reliability.

One more thing, in the announcement, I failed to mention the
contribution of Nicolas Fouché who put together the SMTP and POP3
wrappers.

Anyway, patches and code more than welcome..... there are a lot of
edge cases in email.

Mikel

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