Cyrus IMAPD 2.4

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> Your idea for a cyrus-imap-tool seems like a good one -- are you
> thinking something like a shell script run with flags; e.g.
> 
>    cyrus-imap-tool -e reconstruct -- -m

Or you can do it as git did, with real C code.  This is far more flexible
than shell (which is utter crap, really.  You have no clue how bad an idea
it is to use shell for anything non-trivial, until you look closely at
autoconf and all the nasty tricks it does to be able to run in crap that
refuses to die, such as old versions of AIX).  Perl would work too.

If it is done in C, one can later migrate and consolidate the functionality
from several separate tools into the master one.  This was clearly a major
gain for "git", but I am not so sure that it would be that helpful for Cyrus
IMAP.

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  Henrique Holschuh