From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by 10.213.28.69 with SMTP id l5cs332654ebc; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.32.10 with SMTP id a10mr538736qcd.105.1263754309656; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:51:49 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [205.234.109.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 4si3758467qwe.35.2010.01.17.10.51.49; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sup-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org designates 205.234.109.19 as permitted sender) client-ip=205.234.109.19; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sup-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org designates 205.234.109.19 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sup-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [127.0.0.1]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1560018582DD; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:51:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu (MAGNESIUM.CLUB.CC.cmu.edu [128.237.157.15]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FEF18582CC for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:51:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 11059 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2010 18:51:34 -0000 Received: from pion.club.cc.cmu.edu (HELO localhost.localdomain) (128.237.157.88) by magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu with SMTP; 17 Jan 2010 18:51:34 -0000 From: Rich Lane To: sup-devel@rubyforge.org Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:50:44 -0800 Message-Id: <1263754247-20979-1-git-send-email-rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3 Subject: [sup-devel] RFC: Nuke remote sources X-BeenThere: sup-devel@rubyforge.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sup developer discussion List-Id: Sup developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: sup-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org Errors-To: sup-devel-bounces@rubyforge.org Every few days someone joins the IRC channel complaining of poor performance or bugs with IMAP sources, and we have to tell them to use offlineimap or fetchmail instead. This is embarrassing. There are likely many more users who don't bother to ask on IRC and either unhappily tolerate IMAP or give up on Sup. Even with IMAP you still need to store a huge index on disk, so I can't accept that you'd have enough space for that but not for the actual messages. You still need to download every message to index it. Your mails aren't any more secure from someone stealing your laptop. The same arguments apply to mbox+ssh. The benefit for me is that I won't have to deal with slow, blocking sources when converting the UI to EventMachine. If people agree that this change is a good idea, I assume William will add a deprecation notice to master for 0.10 and merge this patchset to next. _______________________________________________ Sup-devel mailing list Sup-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-devel