Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:49:11 +1300
From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
To: Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com>
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Subject: Re: [notmuch] Request for high-priority improvements to notmuch
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also sprach Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com> [2010.02.02.1043 +1300]:
> > YES PLEASE :-). notmuch seems designed to work in an ecosystem of
> > surrounding scripts, feeding data in and out. But we are all currently
> > limited to regexes for that. And heck, I hard a hard time understanding
> > why all hell broke out until I found that i had added a tag containing
> > parentheses which made my regex fail. :-). XML, JSON, any structured
> > output would be nice.
> >=20
> > And as for filtering: YES, PLEASE :-). notmuchsync and many other 3rd
> > party apps would love that. As father of notmuchsync, I can tell you my
> > little script hickups very badly when slurping in 200k mails (including
> > text bodies) just to find out the maildir tags of those mails.
> >=20
>=20
> There's been a JSON patch waiting for a month now.

The last month has been busy for everyone, mainly due to LCA. We
should now all work together to help Carl go through the patch
queue. Maybe http://patchwork.madduck.net can help.

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