Offlineimap is dead, long live offlineimap?

Alexander Ginzburg alex at eightbits.com
Thu May 20 12:29:28 UTC 2010


Why would you rewrite in other scripting language? Python is as good
choice as ruby or perl.

In my setup offlineimap is cpu bound, which makes an argument for a
compiled language

On 5/20/10, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:02:03PM +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
>>
>> 2. Should we move on to another (compiled) language to make maintenance
>> easier?
>
> About rewriting, I think it could be nice to look further at language.
>
> What about Ruby or Go?
>
> As someone already told in this thread, compiled language probably won't
> help in maintenance. But for experiments and fun, it could be done in
> the Go language.
>
>> 3. Is there anybody who has some interest in answering 1. and 2. for the
>> long term?
>
> To be fair, I'm seriously thinking about writing my own mail client. All
> of them I've tried sucks in many ways (FMPOV at least).
>
> This is not directly related to writing an IMAP client but who knows. I
> don't think an IMAP client already exists in Go (or is even started),
> for example.
>
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