On 2017-04-24 11:55 AM, Florian Unger ([email protected]) wrote:
I am a bit concerned about the future of Thunderbird.
The road map of Mozilla development will drop support for XUL/XPCOM
based extensions, which will also affect the sogo-connector and
sogo-integrator addons.
It will also badly break Lightning - which is more worrisome than our
SOGo extensions. Lightning relies a lot on XPCOM because of libical but
there's a rewrite of the iCalendar handling library in JS
(https://github.com/mozilla-comm/ical.js/).
All this seems to cause a lot of turmoil in the developer community. I
read of plans to do a complete rewrite of Thunderbird as
"Thunderbird++"...
I won't hold my breath on this :-)
I wonder what are the plans of the sogo team for this are
* what is the road map of SOGo? Were will you go?
* will you continue to support Thunderbird?
* are there alternatives to Thunderbird in the Windows universe
(except Outlook) that escaped my search?
* will it be possible to port the sogo-connector and sogo-integrator
addons to the upcoming webextensions API or is this too restrictive?
While I haven't personally looked into this too much, our extensions
relies more on Lightning's code than anything else. I think the porting
effort will be reasonable once/if Lightning gets done.
Thanks,
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