Offlineimap is dead, long live offlineimap?

[Alexander Ginzburg]

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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> Nicolas Sebrecht
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Alex Ginzburg
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