Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Actually I agree with a rewrite as you suggested, the only
disadvantage I see, is that this will take some time and it will stop
the current development because merging could become very difficult.
That's also the reason, why I cc-ed the mailing list because that's a
task that concerns all developers. For me, it's no problem because
I'll go on holiday for more than a month soon and will not work on the
project then.
I can't really judge roundcube's need for an interface rewrite, although
I would have some suggestions if that were to be done.
However, it probably would really slow down development, which I think
shouldn't happen before the 0.1 release. IMHO, the best thing to do
would be to finish up 0.1rc, debug it for a few weeks and then release
0.1. When that's released, we can continue supporting it, but also start
developing an 0.2alpha, which would feature the new client.
That way, we'd have a nice and stable 0.1 for production use and enough
time to thoroughly make the new interface for 0.2.
I don't think maintaining the two branches at a time would be too
difficult. Important bugfixes should still be made to the 0.1 branch,
but not much more.
There's my 2 cents :)
mtu
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