libgmime installation and build requirements

[David Relson]

At 08:50 AM 12/11/02, Matthias Andree wrote:


>I'm not in favor of libgmime:
>
>* It's oversized.
>   We don't need the encoding stuff.
>   We don't need uudecode.
>   We don't need signature handling.
>
>* I cannot build 1.0.6.
>
>* I cannot build 2-current from CVS, it's inconsistent at best, old
>   libtool fails to build shared library, new libtool/automake break the
>   build altogether.
>
>* Why does it need glib to build if it doesn't use it at run time?
>
>We're calling for MAJOR complaints by users if we go for libgmime and
>pull all its gory build dependencies in.

Matthias,

The only other alternatives that I know about is eps and writing our 
own.  Writing our own is a lot of work and comes under the heading of 
"reinventing the wheel", which is not a great thing to do.  Eps has the 
major function of mime decoding which we need.  You've also identified some 
weaknesses in eps.  What are your thoughts about using eps and helping 
their development team complete it enough for our needs?

David