Re: IMAP, Google, and Yahoo Drivers

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera cs bu edu>]

> > On another note I looked into porting some generic IMAP code from python
> > into beagle.  As Joe S. thought I ran into a problem with .net libraries
> > superseded python libraries.  I will probably have to rewrite the code in
> > C#.
>
> Right.  Although it might work, IronPython is a fairly new
> implementation and I'm not willing to add a dependency on the python
> class libraries for Beagle.

I tried the IronPython route a few months back and I faced the problem that 
python doesnt have native namespace and ironpython provides no way to 
generate namespaces. I was trying to write a filter for which I had to create 
a class in a specific namespace. Someone in the IP mailing list replied that 
its in their todo list; he didnt sound too keen to get that feature 
implemented though. I dont remember the reason for requiring a namespace but 
it had to something with loading of clr assemblies. I dont know if this 
problem still persists but you might want to keep this in mind if you are 
trying to write backends/querydrivers in python.

- d.

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