On 30 May 2018, at 17:19 (-0400), Luis E. Muñoz wrote:
On 30 May 2018, at 13:54, Bill Cole wrote:
On 30 May 2018, at 14:51 (-0400), Grant Taylor wrote:
Since Qualcom transferred the Eudora IP to the Computer History
Museum and open sourced the source code, I expect that we will be
seeing movement there in. I think I've seen some references to
projects to resurrect the code base within days of the announcement.
I wouldn't bet on a successful reanimation of the Eudora corpse for
MacOS. My understanding from its developers at the time Qualcomm
killed it in favor of re-skinning TBird (which also fizzled) is that
the code was unmaintainable and required essentially a full rewrite
to keep working on MacOS X given the ongoing rot in the Carbon APIs.
Also, IIRC, messages were kept in mbox-like files. That would
certainly not scale well.
That's actually not a big issue, since they were mbox with an index in
the resource fork or a sibling file and so did not suffer from the
performance issues that simple mbox used simplistically has.
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