Date: 8/10/2008
| I'm going to try using v2 as my day to day client from here on. I don't know why I didn't do that earlier but I'm always busy and well it was a little bit chicken and egg, it's not quite stable enough for everyday usage, because I don't use it everyday. So here I go.
The IMAP code has come a long way but I don't get very far when I work on the IMAP codebase. It's all reasonably well designed but I keep bumping into new issues that disappear when I try and reproduce them. So I think I need a whole bunch of unit tests that I can run over and over. But I havn't done graphical unit tests before so I'm thinking I'll have to use the built in Scribe scripting... maybe. It's a lot of work just to make that happen. I keep finding little issues in the scripting language compiler or VM that means it's not ready for the unwashed masses. But for IMAP unit tests I'd need to be controlling the server as well as the client. Which adds to the complexity even more.
But if I just bumble around doing testing on my own it's very time consuming anyway. There is no easy way to work on the stability and completeness without getting myself into a lot of work.
Anyway I'll get the mail2 back end working smoothly enough for everyday usage in the meantime. Which is mostly smoothing over issues in the UI <-> back end changes, which applies to all the back end layers. So thats still very useful.
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