The following is a list of known places for possible improvement to the GMime library. This list of tasks in no way indicates priority, that is to say that there is no rhyme or reason to the order that the tasks are presented in. GMime 2.6 Planning: =================== - Replace all uses of g_signals with my own event stuff. None of this needs to be public and my events are a lot more performant. [ DONE ] - Need to add a Changed event to GMimeHeaderList so that GMimeMessage can listen to changes in the toplevel mime_part's headers. When they change, we need to unset the cached header stream on the GMimeMessage. (see the "Note:" comments in message_write_to_stream and message_get_headers, while this hack works, it'd be nicer if we did it based on event callbacks) [ DONE ] - Get rid of GMimeSession and replace it with GMimePassphraseRequestFunc or something. See GpgMe's passphrase request callback signature for ideas. [ DONE ] - Consider optionally using GpgMe so that we can support S/MIME? - Consider GCancellable and GError for GMimeStreams and GMimeParser... GError being far more important than GCancellable. GCancellable could be nice to have for network streams, though... - Add a GIO-backed GMimeStream and bump glib dep to 2.16 [ DONE ] - Add a g_mime_part_get_best_content_encoding()? [ DONE ] - Rename GMimeBestEncoding enum to GMimeEncodingConstraint? [ DONE ] This might be a better name for the enum to reflect what it's actually meant for. Maybe also move it from gmime-filter-best.h to gmime-encodings.h? [ DONE ] - How about a g_mime_part_get_best_charset()? This one could be awkward since it depends on the content being text and also encoded in UTF-8... - Should either rename g_mime_filter_best_encoding() to get_encoding() or else make sure that GMime.metadata 'fixes' the method name to be GetEncoding so that it will appear as a C# property getter. Other: ====== - make thread-safe? some stuff already is, like the gmime-iconv code and some of the other charset stuff. Streams and other objects, however, are not. How can I do this...? And is it really needed? - Possibly make the GMime parser incremental. - modify address parser: <charles> on usenet it's not uncommon to have header like "From: Joe Bob" <charles> where people use no address at all to avoid spammers <fejj> ok <charles> It would be nice if internet-address handled this <charles> have ->name == "Joe Bob" and ->value.addr == NULL <fejj> oh, so only support writing them? ah, that should be easy <charles> It looks like the else clause on line 582 is where a "Joe Bob" string fails <fejj> I was pondering how I could possibly parse that as a name :) <charles> No, I am asking about parsing <fejj> oh <charles> It would be nice for internet_address_parse_string() to return an InternetAddress with a name of "Joe Bob" and a NULL addr <fejj> ah, okay <fejj> I guess I can do that <fejj> I'll have to modify my internet_address_to_string code to handle that too <fejj> but that should be easy - S/MIMEv3: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/smime-charter.html Ideas for GMime "3.0" ===================== - Add internet_address_new_name_static() which would take static strings (e.g. strings which should not be free'd on destroy) so that apps can save string memory by reusing strings. - GMimeStream's should take GError args so apps don't have to rely on errno (really needed for apps that implement ssl streams or other stream types which might not map well to libc's errno values) - Maybe even drop GMimeStreams and use GIO? - If not, take GCancellables? - GMimeParser should also take a GError arg and/or return int error codes. All questions and comments should be directed toward the author, Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@gnome.org>
