From: David Bremner Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:25:10 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: Binding access to ~/.notmuch-config X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=542fc9cc705f2e18bc55aa75637abe806e13cd6c;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Binding access to ~/.notmuch-config --- diff --git a/01/ec2783a42397556ae8625e8ed7d29e51967acc b/01/ec2783a42397556ae8625e8ed7d29e51967acc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ca5f0c27e --- /dev/null +++ b/01/ec2783a42397556ae8625e8ed7d29e51967acc @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D026DE01D3 + for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 04:25:18 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: -0.309 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.309 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.242, + RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.55, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=disabled +Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id WpOKHVoINKxy for ; + Wed, 13 Jan 2016 04:25:15 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fethera.tethera.net (fethera.tethera.net [198.245.60.197]) + by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0AB26DE0159 + for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 04:25:14 -0800 (PST) +Received: from remotemail by fethera.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.84) + (envelope-from ) + id 1aJKU2-0007SK-Ej; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 07:25:02 -0500 +Received: (nullmailer pid 2582 invoked by uid 1000); + Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:25:10 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Konrad Hinsen , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: Binding access to ~/.notmuch-config +In-Reply-To: <5696343B.2070907@fastmail.net> +References: <5694CA65.8010400@fastmail.net> <87bn8r54dz.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <8737u26cpg.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <8760yy4o3w.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> <20160112191350.GE372@odin.tremily.us> + <5696343B.2070907@fastmail.net> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.21+26~g9404723 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:25:10 -0400 +Message-ID: <87wprd4qft.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:25:18 -0000 + +Konrad Hinsen writes: + +> I agree. I see notmuch as a collection of CLI tools, some of which are +> part of the distribution and others are written by myself for my +> specific needs. I'd like them all to share a single configuration file. +> In fact, I'd love to be able to add sections specific to my Python scripts. + +Yes, I understand that it's convenient, but the current set up is not +really very robust. The python bindings are making assumptions about a +file format that has never been documented, and whose stability has +never been promised. It's roughly like calling private functions not +part of the published API. Sometimes it's the only way to do something, +but that doesn't mean it won't break. I think we'll eventually want to +provide some config related API, but having having arbitrary programs +reading and writing this file isn't it, IMHO. In particular upcoming +changes may move some configuration items out of this file and into a +library level configuration API. + +d