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Re: mutt development and road map



On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:57:45PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:

> An excellent suggestion.  I will point out though, that of all the
> things I posted in this thread, the thing which is least important and
> least interesting is getting the most attention...

Personally, I think that while your goals are probably admirable, big chunks
of them are impractical.

Extending the configuration language to support conditionals, and making it
more consistent, that's probably a good idea.

Trying to design something like you suggest for the UI and mailbox drivers
would be hard, would require a large amount of effort, and probably wouldn't
work very well for quite some time (if at all). Working to milestones etc.
isn't particularly fun, so you won't get many people doing it. And, IMO, the
payoffs aren't nearly enough to be worth it. Okay, so you can add new mail
types, or plug a new UI in. So what? Who's really ever actually going to do
this?

(And that's leaving aside the question of whether a wholly new UI is
actually a good thing.)

The target audience for text mode mailers is tiny anyway compared to GUI
mailers; time spent on a fully modular mutt is time not spent making the
existing mutt work better.

But hey, that's just my opinion.

-- 
Paul

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