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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Crypto plugins (was: Re: Fwd: Mitarbeit?)
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-10-30 18:08:08
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On Tuesday 30 October 2001 11:45, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
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> > What does everyone think?
>
> ACK.
> From me this would be a fine way.

Yet by agreeing to this proposal, you'd make your target of having 
S/MIME support in KMail by end of Nov a bit unrealistic, since
1. KMime needs to be finished first (and I have the currently the flu 
(for 1 week) and a girl friend (for more like 80 weeks) and a social 
life and cannot invest all my time into programming like some other 
KMail developers seem to.)
2. KMail needs to be ported to KMime (KNode would be the natural first 
mover here, since KMime is based on KNode's classes; but this, too, 
doesn't fit your plans :-()

So, I guess you have to stick with your old plan to make a crypto plugin 
for KMail, hack up the code into Kmail as-is, and see it being 
rewritten for KMime, once that comes available for KMail.

This is what I see now happening from your schedule. You want to 
implement the KMail plugin structure first, where it would have to be 
almost last if it should be done cleanly.

Now, that may be the BSI's fault, which didn't seem to see a need for 
talking to the mutt and KMail guys _first_, but hacked up a 
specification and set a much too tight schedule without having a clue 
about bazaar development models.

It's not cool to have a bunch of officials come along with a bag of 
money and tell someone unrelated to hack up Sphinx support into KMail. 
One would really expect the BSI to contact KDE developers first, to see 
if they have any comments on the proposed specification (thank god, the 
LDAP stuff now seems to be settled gracefully), but... oh, well 
politics... What do you expect from people that unanimously cut one's 
civil rights in a panic reaction...

Marc
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