Re: [Chicken-users] Stupid questions regarding the mbox egg

[Moritz Wilhelmy]

Hi Ivan,

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 22:08:30 +0900, Ivan Raikov wrote:
>    Thanks for using the mbox library. The documentation was not
> up-to-date, which has been fixed now.

wow, you're fast :-)

> Some time ago, I generalized the parsing procedures of mbox so that
> they can take different types of
> input streams. I have now created an additional module, mbox-string,
> which is a version of mbox specialized
> to operate on strings. 

Maybe this is a stupid question, but how do mbox and mbox-string differ?

> If you use mbox-file->messages from the mbox-string library, it will
> work as below (i.e. it takes a filename string or port argument).
> Please update your installation of mbox, try it out and let me know if
> you are still having problems.

You'll hear from me, as soon as I find anything, I promise.

I don't want to provoke a bikeshed, but would you mind releasing mbox
under less restrictive conditions than GPLv3? I think this makes sense
for a small library like this.


Thank you,

Moritz