On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It took me about a year to learn enough about IMAP to create a working > implementation but the good news is that the hard leg work's over now > - a comprehensive functional test suite exists together with working > IMAP commands and codecs.
Sweet! I've heard that imap is quite complex. I guess I don't want to know all the reasons. If only we could "reinvent Email using REST" [1]. ;-) > I'd much rather start from first principals by designing a good model. > I'm very familiar with the actual requirements (rather than the API's > requirements). Second, create a fully working and tested module just > containing the JCR stuff. Third, create an adapter module (probably by > cloning the torque module) between the API and the JCR module. Sounds like plan. We just have to keep an eye on 3) along the way so that writing an adapter doesn't become a complex time consuming task spoiling the work done in 1) and 2). Patrick --- [1] http://prescod.net/rest/restmail/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
