Am 10.02.2014 17:02, schrieb Robin Burchell: > Hello folks, > > After some build system reworking recently and a little discussion > amongst the interested parties (Matt Vogt, Valerio), I'd like to > propose renaming QMF (Qt Messaging Framework) to QtMail with the > longer term goal of making it a module of Qt properly - no longer a > labs project. Making it a proper Qt module? That's awesome news. > QMF's naming is historical: QMF originally handled other types of > messages than purely mail (SMS/MMS also, for instance). This has not > been the case for quite some time - QMF now handles *only* email, so > this renaming makes the whole thing sound a bit less meta and less > awkward. I don't mind the naming: The data model clearly is email oriented, therefore expressing that in the class names is fine. What bothers me: Do you plan keeping support for other message types, or did you even consider extending it? I am thinking of Kolab's IMAP server that stores contacts and calendars in dedicated IMAP folders. Even more I think of instant messaging: As a spare time project I am experimenting with an unified EMail + XMPP client right now and considered implementing a XMPP plugin for QMF/QtMail, so that I could benefit from its abstractions. Instead of hiding QMF and XMPP behind my own, rather ad-hoc abstraction layer.
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