[Kde-pim] KMail policy regarding closing bugs

[Stefan Eilers]

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.. :)

Mfg., Dr. Stefan Eilers
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Dr.-Ing. Stefan Eilers
Projekt Manager

basysKom GmbH
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