[IMAP-56] Split codec module (Create a message module and maybe an encoder/decoder module.)

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1
• Component/s: Build System
• Assignee: Stefano Bagnara
• Reporter: Stefano Bagnara
• Created: 15/Sep/08 21:21
• Updated: 27/Sep/08 11:55
• Resolved: 27/Sep/08 11:55

Description

I see some module is really small (seda) while other modules are really big (codec). I graphed the package dependency tree (it is a tree only after grouping the 2 cycles above) and it resulted that the codec module have 2 separated hierarchies:
http://people.apache.org/~bago/imap/graph-imap-full-package-check-no-torque.gif
Does it worth splitting? (note that imap.message.request.base+imap4rev1 and imap.command.imap4rev1 can be moved in both "groups").
3b) maybe we could even shorten package names: codec.encode => encode and codec.decode => decode
3c) another option would be to extract the imap.message package to its own module (message). codec (or both decode/encode if it is splitted) would then depend on this message module). If I'm not wrong processor would so depend only on "message" and not on codec(decode/encode).