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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:39:23 -0400 David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DA> Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DA> DA> > Well, actually I don't know why does it fall to me :-) Anybody could try DA> > to do this, it just needs some time. The first thing to do would be to DA> > simply try SWIG on our existing .h files. Probably it won't work, but I'm DA> > not even sure about it. DA> DA> If you all are interested, I would be happy to help out with Python DA> bindings using Boost.Python (since I happen to be intimately familiar DA> with it). I know :-) The offer, coming from you, is very tempting, but the sad truth is that we really don't have any extra resources to spend on this, time-wise. The advantage of SWIG is that it used to work and it shouldn't be very difficult to make it work again (it just suffers from bit rot). Whereas Boost.Python definitely has some advantages compared to it (SWIG has some too, of course...) we'd need to learn it and actually do whatever is necessary to start using it and this is simply not going to happen in near future unless more people join the team. DA> All I ask in return is responsiveness from the Mahogany developers DA> for some feature requests I have. I've been dying for a decent DA> integrated mail/newsreader, and living with GNUs as the least of DA> several evils for a while now. ;-) I have some bad news for you: to be honest, Mahogany is not a decent newsreader and although it aims to become one at version 2.0, we're still quite far from 1.0 yet. In other words, the current focus is solely on the mail part. News support sort of works (last time I tried it, anyhow) but I certainly don't recommend using it as a primary newsreader. As usual, the problem is not that we don't want to make it a great newsreader as well, but that we have to choose priorities carefully considering the limited resources we have. Best regards, VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
