Re: ANNOUNCE: skyrix-core-42 available

[Helge Hess]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > Why do you need MIME for NSURL ?
> Well, strictly speaking it was for HTTP rather than MIME, but they are 
> so similar that I
> implemented it as the GSMime class so it could be used generally too.

Hm.

Sounds a bit "over-engineered" to me ;-) HTTP is far simpler than MIME 
(more or less a small subset) even if this might not be apparent if you 
look at it. HTTP (as available through the NSURL API) has no duplicate 
headers, to line folding, a single charset, no line length limitations, 
no multiparts, ...

Why doing more than required in the very core library ? This way not 
only the code base is more complicated, but applications developed 
against GNUstep are not unlikely to be incompatible to other Foundations 
(pretty much the same way Cocoa apps are because of CF).

Sorry, if I'm too negative ;-)

> I suspect Pantomime didn't re-use it, because it had not been ported to 
> MacOS-X

In my understanding Pantomime's primary goal is to implement the 
javax.mail API (which came out long after we started NGMime/NGImap4). 
IMHO this is a good choice (I also always wanted to make things more 
javax.mail like).
A MIME library cannot be implemented in a single class, MIME is a very 
complex thing in practice.

Greetings
  Helge