Taking a Project Public

Derek Neighbors plug-devel@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu Sep 9 10:42:02 2004


http://www.cybertrails.com/~dickson/pymail.png instead.

Jared Anderson said:
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> From	--)> Paul Dickson <dickson@permanentmail.com>
> Date	--)> Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:29:14 -0700
> Subject	--)> Taking a Project Public
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>> For the past month, I have been writing a program to read E-mail
>> that's very similar to Sylpheed, except writing in Python.  The
>> slowest part has been learning ins and outs of PyGTK.  Now that I may
>> have a job soon, I'd like to make the project a public and GPL'd.  I'd
>> appreciate tips on the best way to do this.
>>
>> I thought about Sourceforge (sf.net), but they use CVS and their
>> mailinglist tend to be very spammy.  I'd like to use subversion
>> instead, but I've had very little experience with it or CVS.
>>
>> I also need a name.  I'm currently using pymail, but a google search
>> turned several other uses of that name (one was an alternate version
>> of the Unix mail program written in python, and the sending part at
>> that). Name suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> The program can read the folder structure and messages (two
>> TreeViews), but does not yet display messages or allow message
>> composing.  I started this project because the Python Standard Library
>> supports most of the stuff that Sylpheed has to code itself.
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>> A screen view of pymail is at:
>>     http://www.cybertrails.com/~dickson/pymail.py
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>> Thanks in advnace for any help.
>>
>> 	-Paul
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>> FYI - Sylpheed and Pymail use the MH mailbox format, which is one
>> message per file, a folder is a directory of message files.
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