[Kde-pim] KMail policy regarding closing bugs

[Till Adam]

Heya Stefan,

On Friday 03 November 2006 19:15, Stefan Eilers wrote:
> Hi Tobias!
>
> Am 02.11.2006 um 17:22 schrieb Tobias Koenig:
> >> Modularity is the key word for me. I fear that we don't have the
> >> time to rewrite Kmail from ground up.
> >
> > I don't want to discourage you but rewriting KMail from ground up
> > is the
> > only solution we have to keep up with Thunderbird, Opera or
> > Evolution.
>
> Well.. I'm sorry to hear this.
>
> > The code base has grown over years and too less time was invested
> > in refactoring, so in the current state as soon as you touch one
> > piece of code a side effect may appear somewhere else without
> > noticing it.
>
> Do you have some examples? I would like to look into the code to get
> a sense for this problem.
>
> > Of course it is possible to do the refactoring, but it takes a lot
> > more
> > time (since you have to figure out _all_ code pathes inside kmail)
> > than
> > rewriting it...
>
> Thanks for the warning.. :)

There are a few discussions and summaries to be found in the archives of 
this list, and the kmail-devel one. I'll try to dig something up and 
give you some more detail hopefully this weekend. I'm in the middle of 
moving house to Berlin, atm, so things are hectic.

Cheers,

Till
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