Re: ANN: Basil -- Internet Message (email) and MIME library for Ada v 1.0

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On Jul 23, 6:07 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Right, that's why I was talking about the SMTP *client* part of AWS.
> But of course, you decide how you speak with the customer's MTA.

I think you are confused about how mail systems typically work. The
only thing that typically needs to serve as an SMTP *client* or do
anything with SMTP at all is Mail Server (Mail Transfer Agent) the
only reason why a Mail User Agent would deal with SMTP is if it wanted
to support one of the newer methods of accessing its parent server
such
as SMTP TLS. Otherwise there are many other non-SMTP ways of accessing
a server, at least one of which is almost surely more appropriate.

> > I am considering using AWS for the web interface portion, but then again
> > you have the same integration problem. People want their web applications
> > to run behind the web server *they* choose (or at least Apache) they don't
> > want a stand-alone system. [...]
>
> If you want to integrate with the customer's web server, I'm afraid
> your best option is Java Servlets :(

. . .

Web servers provide many APIs, from CGI to loadable modules. As Java
Servlets are one option produced by a software company for its
proprietary language that is not Ada, no, I don't think that would
be the best option given my constraints.

> I didn't want to offend you but yes, this is small. Compare this with

Ludovic, not to offend *you* but I've not seen any evidence
on this thread that you don't want to offend me. It seems that
is all you've tried to do. Yes, a library that has been in
development for six months does not compare to gcc, nor other
projects that have been around for many years, some with
corporate backing. But considering the central thesis of your
argument is a belief that Basil doesn't have a right to exist
as a separate package, I think most would consider 10k SLOC
as being past the threshold where a piece of software can be
written off as trivial.

Anyway, I guess I've been away from Usenet for too long, and
forgotten how to put up with trolling. Thank you everyone
*else* for your warm reception.

I hope to have content-dispensation and few other things
in this project in a week or so. I also have some other
projects in mind for the next few months. I'm currently
planning a Unicode library and hope to have a spec written
for that soon.

--
Jordan Bettis