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[John W. Moore III]

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John Clizbe wrote:

> <sighhhhhh>
> 
> Congratulations. You've created YAABH - Yet Another Address Book Hack. They show
> up every now and then as "enhancements". They always have one little problem,
> they require so much effort and coordination among all the different parts of
> the Mozilla mail-news code that they cannot be extensions. They must be fully
> integrated into the application. They also require that Enigmail be fully
> absorbed into the core application.
> 
> YOU want this so much, your solution is to start coding and send the Mozilla
> folks a patch or develop your _OWN_ extension.

Be sure and begin work using the Tb3 Source Code.  At present
Thunderbird 3 has morphed into such an unwieldy mess that whatever You
hack together will probably be broken with the next Alpha release.
Between the disabling of Java Script along with the full integration of
other existing Extensions in an attempt to make T-Bird more
'Outlook-like' means that even if successful You will be responsible for
maintaining a Boutique Version of Thunderbird that will require constant
maintenance & frequent 'Releases' + Distribution.  From working with the
Development on Tb3 I have come to the conclusion that if/when Tb2 is
retired I will be moving to SeaMonkey rather than attempting to maintain
a Thunderbird Installation.  Even the Original Developer of Thunderbird
has left the Project because of the  complexities introduced into what
was originally a simple, elegant Mail/News Client.

One consideration You may wish to focus on is how large Your consumer
base will be for Thunderbird _with_ Your 'enhancement' and then decide
if You wish to tackle the responsibility for maintaining Your patches.
:-\  As of this past Sunday the Code for Tb3 is almost 2.5x the size of
Tb2.  The current development of Tb3 is 'stuck' on the debate over
disabling Java Script for security reasons.  But if You are sincere &
dedicated enough then with persistence Your 'solution' may become
incorporated but My Personal feeling is that Tb3 has already become too
bloated to be stable.  :-\

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Wednesday 08 Oct 2008, 17:15  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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