[Kde-pim] Akonadi now using a binary protocol

[Daniel Vrátil]

Hi all,

just a heads up that I have just merged the dev/binary-protocol branches in 
Akonadi and kdepimlibs repositories. This means that clients and Akonadi 
server now use a binary stream instead of a text-based protocol. IMAP was 
cool, but de/serializing data from/into a binary stream is way faster. That 
said it is still possible to get human-readable string representatio of each 
command for debugging purposes, so the "Debugger" tab in Akonadi Console is 
still pretty useful :-)

I'll write a more in-depth technical blog post soon with more details about 
the change. There are also some more details in the commits messages [0], [1].

The change is API compatible, but not ABI so those who are running KDE PIM 
from master must in addition to akonadi and kdepimlibs (obviously) rebuild 
also kmailtransport, kidentitymanagement, akonadi-calendar, kdepim and kdepim-
runtime.

I don't have any hard numbers now to proof that it's actually faster, so feel 
free to yell at me if it *feels* slower :-) If you run into any problems, 
please do ping/mail/bug me.

Cheers,
Dan

[0] http://commits.kde.org/akonadi/b16227d59bf1b35b4842e0e0f20edc3163ca3ec8
[1] http://commits.kde.org/kdepimlibs/d5c3c1101df5b7de9e791088444e4c066e87e5c6

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