Re: considering to remove ext/imap from master

From: Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:21:31 +0000
Subject: Re: considering to remove ext/imap from master
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hi,

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

As I said there are many very good alternatives, BSD-like too.

> Now, what would such move give us? Is there any problem with imap now?

Yes, many (see the bugs DB). And c-client is as dead as msql.

What does it bring to us? Less work, less worry, less issues, give a
clear signal to the projects to migrate. Also keep in mind that we are
talking about 2015 here as 5.4 still has it.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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