Re: [exim] Continuing development of Exim

On 2012-05-07 14:25, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a feeling or worry that since Philip Hazel has retired, Exim may see much less development and go into a kind of "maintenance mode". I think it's in danger of falling by the wayside if that happens.
>
> I would be interested to know anyone has plans for future development, in particular what we might call "exim 5"? I have some wild ideas that I'd like to throw out there to see what people think. I expect to get flamed for some of them :) I don't expect them all to succeed, but hope that they may start interesting discussions.

Perhaps you should keep an eye on the devs mailinglist? All
contributions welcome.

Then, another route for logging suggestions is the bugs database.


> I'd like to discuss something that could turn Exim into a laboratory and toolkit for email programming: a complete rewrite in a modern interpreted language such as Python or Lua, with an object-oriented style, maintaining feature and configuration file compatibility, and with a test suite.
>
> Existing plugins could be wrapped as native extensions to the interpreted language, or eventually rewritten as interpreted modules. New plugins could easily be developed and tested in the debugger of the interpreter.
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> Of course that last task is a huge one, and while I could contribute to it, I would not like to do it alone, or to simply hack away at it in my spare time and present it as a "fait accompli". So I'd like to see if there's any agreement that this is a sensible way to proceed, and if so to put together a working group, a roadmap and a division of labour.

You'd also lose some existing maintainers.
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Jeremy