From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:42:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] RFC: output json from notmuch?
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:05:07 -0800, Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com> wrote:

> I have a patch for a --output=(text|json) for both notmuch-show and
> notmuch-search. I mentioned it earlier on the list, and no one seemed to have
> any interest.

Ahh, I missed that. I think it was just before I subscribed to the list,
and I skipped over the subject about perl and python.

> Is it worth updating to HEAD and trying again?

Sure, it sounds more complete than what I have. You could also wait and
see what feedback this thread gathers.

On a different topic (and in response to Carl and your earlier
discussion), as a counter-weight to the desire to avoid dependencies
(which I agree with), I also think we should be careful about how many
embedded copies of code there are, from the point of keeping up with
security problems.  This is probably a bias I picked up from Debian.


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David Bremner                                  Professor, UNB Computer Science
bremner@unb.ca			           
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner               Cross Appointment, UNB Mathematics
http://www.mitacs.ca/			   MITACS Atlantic Scientific Director