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Comment	>> 1. Why can't IMP 5.1 require a newer version of a specific package? >> Isn't that part of the intent of the separate framework packages? > > This was my understanding/belief also. A minor version bump is > intended to indicate that the basic framework is the same (i.e. no > major data/configuration changes), but that there may be some > substantial changes to the underlying system to fix limitations in > the previous version. > >> 2. Is the change to Horde_Imap_Client one that will break IMP 5.0, or >> is it just that this bug won't be fixed without it? > > Right now, Horde_Imap_Client accepts either UTF-8 or UTF7-IMAP > strings for all mailbox parameters. This needs to be changed to > Horde_Imap_Client accepting UTF-8 strings only (since it can not be > 100% reliably auto-detected). > > I am positive that IMP passes both types of strings to H_I_C methods. > So this needs to be changed to UTF-8 only. But this change in IMP > is worthless if there is not a corresponding change in H_I_C - since > we need to be calling a version of H_I_C that does not do any > auto-conversion. > > There are other things that need to be fixed in H_I_C (allowing > multiple mailboxes to specified to search(); returning the list of > UIDs that were altered in store() instead of a boolean) that should > be done sooner rather than later. > >> 3. No matter how long we took on the release, we would have found >> something like this. > > That is probably true - this is a bit broad of a statement on my > part. But locking ourselves into an API, without the benefit of > broad-based, thorough testing, is a terrible thing. This was the #1 > failure of Horde 3 - we should not be supporting broken APIs for > (potentially) years simply because that happen to be the state of > things the second version x.0 came out.
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