Re: imap.el and nnimap.el [was Re: Build failure bzr trunk revno 103260]

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

>> However, if the new basic IMAP library is called imap.el, then this
>> would still break third-party applications.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I don't know how many third-party applications make use of nnimap, but
> if they do it would not be very clean, since nnimap requires Gnus.

I was talking about imap.el only (which was designed to be non-Gnusey, I
think), not nnimap.el.

> Merging general purpose libraries from gnus/ back into net/ is good, and
> I support the move.  Also, now (i.e. for Emacs 24.1) is as good a time
> as any for this kind of change.

I think I'll take a whack at separating out the login/send-command basic
functions from nnimap.el and put them into a new, minimal imap.el.

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