Suppose I’m an accounts executive and I maintain a list of users who are close to being assessed a penalty. The Haiku mail client is still not only barely functional, but lacks crucial functions for certain business tasks.įor example, something as “stupid” and “inconsequential” as timed mail send is not included. Qt apps are slower, horrible for universal access (trouble especially for the blind), and don’t mesh with any UI/UX but KDE (which was built with Qt in mind).įrankly, I’m not sure why Haiku users wouldn’t be interested in this. Just compare Inkscape with something like Adobe Illustrator and you’ll KWIM. Not only that, but Qt apps stand out-and not in a good way. Inb4 Qt: I know, I know, Qt is a cross-platform toolkit from the word go, and we could’ve used it, but this code was second-hand. It only took us six months to strip Stingray (QC proprietary toolkit) out completely and replace it with MFC, and we only have two developers at present! I know is busy as all hell, but if we only had one or two people as competent as him, we’d probably have HERMES Mail/H (for Haiku) out within four to six months. I was just thinking, given how we managed to port Qualcomm’s proprietary, €3700 toolkit to plain MFC, maybe someone from the Haiku project could be co-opted to help us port the MFC to Haiku’s toolkit? Really, for a power eMail user, it would be so much better than trying to wrestle with either Haiku Mail or a ported Thunderbird. I’m uploading the HERMES Project “corporate” Web site as we speak (front-end development by yours truly). Oh, we’re THIS close to making Eudora live on as HERMES for Windows it should be released to-morrow as a closed beta, and then we’ll open it up around Valentine’s Day or thereabouts. Would anyone be up for writing (a GUI for) an eMail client in C++? The MFC GUI would work as a great template, the business code is roughed in, there are no preconceived expectations (as there are for I never intended to use this thread for feature requests I was just responding to questions I was receiving. And all of this got me thinking, as a Haiku user familiar with its monolithic philosophy, why not try to port it over? The business code shouldn’t require much of a change, and Haiku lacks what I’d call a “full-featured” eMail client written with the Haiku Way in mind. The GUI is pure MFC (that was not the case six months ago). The first production-quality release of HERMES Mail (numbered 8.0 to maintain continuity with Eudora, with a name change for legal reasons) is due out any day now.Īnyway, HERMES Mail is constructed with pure C++, no third-party toolkits involved. So I managed to wangle a few coders to do the work, and meanwhile, I’ve put the word out, taken executive decisions on the name/colour scheme/user experience/iconset, set up one Kickstarter after another (netting us about $4,000 in funds), frontend development for a new Web site, etc etc etc…Įudora as originally abandoned in 2004 is still a great eMail client the business code is pretty much close to perfect, and what wasn’t (mainly OpenSSL) we replaced with newer versions. I’m good with architectural decisions, high-level stuff, planning, Web development, support, p.r., practically everything but the code. Problem is, I’m not anything close to a coder (I’ve written programs in LISP, but this is pure C++, and it is a big project). I’ve “inherited”, in large part, the codebase of the old Eudora mail client for Windows (we’re talking 2004-era vintage). This is going to sound strange as all get-out, but I’ll just jump into it and let you judge for yourself.
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