On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:17:14AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> But Mail::Cclient is also unbeleivably powerful. Lying round on my HD
> there's a Mail::Cclient::Simple which amkes everything much easier but
> it's one of many projects I've never got round to finishing. Why
> reinvent the wheel by rolling my own or using 5 or 6 different modules
> when one will do.
Because it doesn't exist? :) OTOH, Mail::Cclient does do NNTP as well, which
would be a boost, because WING is meant to be the Web IMAP and NNTP Gateway.
> Imp was crap when we started and it's also PHP based. I like PHP (/me
> gets coat) but I wouldn't do a large scale application in it (especially
> since I had just just done one then and hit some very large limitations)
> plus it doesn't have the community support that Perl does or CPAN and it
> was difficult to extract presentation from logic.
If I were to deploy Imp, I wouldn't care how much community support PHP had,
I'd care how much community support Imp had.
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