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- The following is a list of known places for possible improvement to
- the GMime library. This list of tasks in no way indicates priority,
- that is to say that there is no rhyme or reason to the order that the
- tasks are presented in.
-
-
- - make thread-safe? some stuff already is, like the gmime-iconv code
- and some of the other charset stuff. Streams and other objects,
- however, are not. How can I do this...? And is it really needed?
-
- - Possibly make the GMime parser incremental.
-
- - modify address parser:
-
- <charles> on usenet it's not uncommon to have header like "From: Joe Bob"
- <charles> where people use no address at all to avoid spammers
- <fejj> ok
- <charles> It would be nice if internet-address handled this
- <charles> have ->name == "Joe Bob" and ->value.addr == NULL
- <fejj> oh, so only support writing them? ah, that should be easy
- <charles> It looks like the else clause on line 582 is where a "Joe Bob" string fails
- <fejj> I was pondering how I could possibly parse that as a name :)
- <charles> No, I am asking about parsing
- <fejj> oh
- <charles> It would be nice for internet_address_parse_string() to return an
- InternetAddress with a name of "Joe Bob" and a NULL addr
- <fejj> ah, okay
- <fejj> I guess I can do that
- <fejj> I'll have to modify my internet_address_to_string code to handle that too
- <fejj> but that should be easy
-
- - S/MIMEv3: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/smime-charter.html
-
-
-
-
- Ideas for GMime "3.0"
- =====================
-
- - Make g_mime_stream_*_new() functions more consistent (maybe add
- fs/FILE "from filename" functions too)
-
- - Add internet_address_new_name_static() which would take static
- strings (e.g. strings which should not be free'd on destroy) so that
- apps can save string memory by reusing strings.
-
- - GMimeStream's should take GError args so apps don't have to rely on
- errno (really needed for apps that implement ssl streams or other
- stream types which might not map well to libc's errno values)
-
- - GMimeParser should also take a GError arg and/or return int error
- codes.
-
- - GMimeMultipartEncrypted::decrypt() needs to return a
- GMimeSignatureStatus for signed/encrypted parts.
-
- - Get rid of deprecated functions.
-
-
-
- All questions and comments should be directed toward the author,
- Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@gnome.org>
-