Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] literal folder: prefix, new path: prefix

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] literal folder: prefix, new path: prefix\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
+>\r
+> I've dropped most of the content in patches 7 and 10 due to their\r
+> size. The patches (and the whole series) are available in the\r
+> boolean-folder-and-path-v2 branch at\r
+> git://gitorious.org/jani/notmuch.git. Web interface at\r
+> https://gitorious.org/jani/notmuch/commits/0b3dd2d1cc6c413ea07ea326883ac448499c0e79.\r
+>\r
+\r
+Hi Jani;\r
+\r
+I put a some proposed changes at \r
+\r
+  http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git?p=notmuch.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/boolean-folder-and-path-v2\r
+\r
+After playing with it a bit, I decided to \r
+\r
+      - leave the source for the corpuses in the main tree. As we\r
+        discussed, we don't expect them to change much, and they are\r
+        text files.\r
+\r
+      - store the binary database blobs externally. We could make the\r
+        same argument about infrequent changes here, except that even\r
+        the tiniest change will in practice require a whole new copy be\r
+        stored.\r
+\r
+        - compute a checksum file\r
+        - test: add machinery to fetch and publish test databases\r
+        - test: commit database-v1.tar.xz checksum, ignore actual database\r
+\r
+       - this is an independant bug fix that should probably be pushed anyway:\r
+\r
+         - test: don't use $(dir) in recipes.\r
+\r
+      - I also made some unrelated changes including switching to xz\r
+        compression. I intentionally didn't squash my patches into yours\r
+        so you see and decide\r
+\r
+        - convert to XZ compression\r
+        - convert test to XZ\r
+\r
+        Originally I thought metadata in the database tarball is\r
+        needed. It turns out not. I think it's harmless, but feel free\r
+        to drop it.\r
+\r
+        - add some metadata to the database tarball\r
+        \r
+      - I struggled to find a way that would allow people to manage the\r
+        tarballs in a nice way while not requiring everyone to\r
+        install/learn new tools. My conclusion is in\r
+      \r
+        - test: add support for git annex managing test databases\r
+\r
+We still need to think about what to do for people installing from\r
+tarballs. As it stands they will need to either have network access or\r
+skip the relevant tests. Probably at least one followup patch is needed\r
+here. The alternative would be to include the database tarballs in the\r
+source; this will pretty quickly double the size of the source tarball.\r
+\r
+\r