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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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28 To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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29 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] compact: provide user more information on
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30 after-compaction failures
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57 Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
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58 > I was thinking naming the function notmuch_database_compact_internal ()
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59 > as one option (I also though of notmuch_database_compact_unstable () -- but
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60 > that sounds so "unstable" (at least outside Debian people ;D)) --
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61 > could be one option. Then developers should understand the API is not
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64 I think 0.18 will just be an API breaking release in general; compact is
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65 probably the least of people's worries. Yes, it's a bit more irritating
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66 because the API will be short lived, but since we plan to change
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67 notmuch_database_open, pretty much every client of the library will have
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68 to update anyway. Luckily there probably aren't enough such clients to
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69 get a really good lynch mob together. I'd suggest just mentioning it
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70 NEWS for 0.17 that the library interface for compact is expected to
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