On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > The point is if you expose the internal API for accessing the mailstore > you are stuck with it and can't make changes. I can't imagine there is > a big need for this or other people wanting to write code to implement > that API, so if you really want to do this it is probably better as Rob > suggested to just link to the Cyrus code that manipulates it (and watch > for version skew between programs accessing the mail store).
Well, I don't recommend this for anything that isn't part of the cyrus distribution. The chance of version skew (especially in subtle ways) is very high, and certainly this isn't a good option if the library is being linked staticly. For any external program, I strongly recommend you only use the standard/provided interfaces (protocols, and deliver) and *NOT* the internal APIs. Documentation of the internal APIs is useful from a cyrus developer standpoint, but not from a usefulness to users standpoint. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
