Re: [Nmh-workers] What OS/Architecture Do You Run nmh On?

[Paul Vixie]

Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > from there, implementing Maildir might be easier than from here. even
> > IMAP isn't impossible, if we're willing to return a socket descriptor
> > instead of a file descriptor, or maybe a pipe from a fork, or (gag me) a
> > temporary file.
>
> Weeeelll ... I think, sadly, that to really make things like IMAP a win
> we need to abstract out things a bit more.

that sounds right. however, i'm not sure if you're saying that 
abstracting out the POSIX stuff so that it can also handle Maildir is 
not a good first correctness-preserving transformation that would set us 
up well for a second such transformation once IMAP's semantics and 
impedance are better understood, or, if you think there's no point in 
doing it in two steps, and we should understand everything before we do 
anything. can you elaborate?

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P Vixie