Re: Breaking mailutils to pieces

[Sam Roberts]

Quoting Alain Magloire <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> Bonjour
> 
> Intro:
>   What's good about Free software is that you can break API without
> having to worry about backward compatibility .. too much.

Onwards and upwards! I like it, and think the hierarchy you map
below is crystal clear.

Sam

> 1-
> The owner will be nuke.  No unsafe "void *" pointers and typecasting
> the owner of an object will be cast in stone. So
>   header_t   -- own --> message_t
>   body_t     -- own --> message_t
>   envelope_t -- own --> message_t
>   message_t  -- own --> mailbox_t
>   mailbox_t  -- own --> folder_t
> The hierarchy:
> - Folder
>       - mailbox
>               - message
>                       - envelope
>                       - header
>                       - body
>       - auth
>               - ticket (???)

-- 
Sam Roberts <address@hidden> (Vivez sans temps mort!)