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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:13:12 +0200
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To: Raphael Geissert <geissert@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] IMAP patches from kolab -- can we get these merged?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Raphael Geissert <geissert@php.net> wrote:
> Mikko Koppanen wrote:
>> I was looking at annotations patch and it seems that my c-client does
>> not support the functionality (2007b on Debian Lenny). Do the
>> annotations require a custom patch to c-client as well?
>
> The request to include the annotations patch at Debian is at:
> http://bugs.debian.org/456947
>
> But as you can see, it is marked as blocked by
> http://bugs.debian.org/456591
>
> (the request against uw-imap/libc-client to include the patch.)
>
> Therefore, the blocker at the php level is enabling the annotations code at
> configure time if the system supports it. Of course, support on libc-client
> is necessary for it to be of any use.
>
> I just talked to Jonas Smedegaard (the Debian maintainer of libc-client,)
> and apparently the reason for not merging it is that the code is dead
> upstream and unmaintainable. A dead end. While digging for alternatives, it
> appears that there was a discussion in 2004 for FC2 about the situation of
> libc-client, but besides that: nothing.

I don't see a problem to include that in PHP as long as it is well
done. Mikko updated the patches nicely, both the php and the c-client
patch.

> As it seems, the best and maintainable solution is to switch to some other
> alternative library (sadly, there's no such candidate atm.)

What make you think that c-client is dead? I have seen updates last
year and I know that the main developer still works and support this
library. I don't think either that using 6 years old discussions to
decide something is a good idea. Something like that happened for php
and gd with Etch, and it was a total fiasco.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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