[Kolab-devel] kimap (imap library) Re: annotations patch in c-client what is the status?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:

> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 11:32:33AM +0100, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> >Here comes the troublesome part (sorry Bernhard for not replying earlier):
>> >The library is written in C++ while PHP uses mostly C. We would need a lot
>> >of wrapper glue here. The new library also depends on Qt and some KDE
>> >libraries, this is quite a heavy dependency for a PHP module.
>>
>> That is the disadvantage this new library has. As long as you are
>> working within a context that uses Qt anyhow you are fine. But for all
>> server environments you really want a light-weight library doing the
>> IMAP access. I don't know if you can package libkimap with a
>> lightweight Qt version. But if not I don't see it in the server but
>> only the desktop environment.
>
> What do you mean with light-weight?  In openSUSE the QT package is 1.2MB
> and contains only the following libs:
> /usr/bin/qdbus
> /usr/lib/libQtCLucene.so.4.4.3
> /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3
> /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4.4.3
> /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4.4.3
> /usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4.4.3
> /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4.4.3
> (these are the pure files, I left out the links).  Looks rather light-weight
> to me, isn't it?

That would indeed be okay. I guess Qt-4 is a significant step ahead in  
comparison to Qt-3. c-client is 1.3MB :)

Cheers,

Gunnar

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