2011-10-06



Although I don't write about it  daily,  I  usually  work  on  my
master's  thesis  project.  I  might  have  told already that I'm
creating an experimental version of am MH MUA, based  on  nmh.  I
call  it `mmh', for ``meillo's (or modern) mail handler''.  First
of all it's distilled to the core, having  removed  anything  not
being the core task of an MUA. And second, it's non-compatible to
MH/nmh, by intend.

Anyways, during these days, I removed a lot of function part that
I  don't consider part of the main MUA job. This reduced the code
base by 25%, with more to come. I do see this as a great success.
Everything  becomes  more  easy -- bug fixing, documentation, ex-
tending, maintenance in general.  In contrast to the  old  MH/nmh
approach,  I'll exclude functions that can be covered by special-
ized external tools (like sendmail, fetchmail,  procmail).   Take
this:  nmh  even include it's own FTP client. Maybe there's an OS
somewhere in there too. ;-)



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>