On Wed, 23 May 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 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.
Mail::Cclient was (not sure if it is still) a bitch to install. Requires
c headers from IMAP libraries. How likely is it that you have these
(still) lying around on your client machine[1]?
Most people opt for something that they can get to install easily[2]
rather than something more powerful. If I can't just write a bundle for
cpan then it's probably not worth the bother...
Oh, let's just add it to the list of things to do once we've done NMS, the
new website for london.pm.org and conferences are out of the way...
Later.
Mark.
[1] Rhetorical question, not flame bait.
[2] in under 2 hours
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