On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > > the mailet api is now to be found in at > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/mailet/api/trunk/. however, > > after the move out from JAMES server some of the contents don't look > > quite right for an API. so, we've decided to create a new product > > called mailet-base to contain them and other classes generally useful > > when building mailets. > > > > we've had a bit of a talk on the server list and think we have a split > > which a good enough starting point. this effects the contents of the > > first independent mailet API release so i'd like to get feedback from > > this list. > > > > Could you explain the relationship between mailet-api and mailet-base going > forward? Does mailet-base intended to replace mailet-api with a honed > purpose?
mailet-api will be the specification and mailet-base will be a basic toolkit for mailet developers thus factoring out the two main concerns of the current mailet product. mailet-api will be released each time the specification is updated. mailet-base may well be released more frequently. - robert
