Re: [exim] Exim 5

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ian Eiloart
CC: exim-users, Magnus Holmgren
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 5
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> > As for Exim 5, I'm sure that there is a lot that could be done if there
> > were enough keen people to run such a project. I have a list of ideas
> > that have accumulated from time to time (not updated since October
> > 2004). One obvious change is to require PCRE to be installed (it is on
> > many systems anyway) instead of using an internal copy.
> >
>
> Could you post those ideas to the wiki? With an indication of why they
> belong in 5, rather than 4.x? I believe the philosophy is that a 5.x
> release would necessarily include significant incompatible changes -
> compatible changes could go into a 4.x release *even if* there were
> significant restructuring of the code base?


When I get time, yes, I'll try to do that. They will need tidying up as
they are now quite old. And some of them probably don't absolutely need
to be in 5.x - they are just future ideas that didn't seem right /
sensible / doable at the time.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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