Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge

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+Subject: Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge\r
+Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:35:42 +0000\r
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+Hi all,\r
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+Those of you with long enough backlog on the list to remember my rant (id:2=\r
+0110626202733.GA26837@brick)\r
+can guess my opion on this matter but just to be sure..\r
+\r
+I am not much of an expert on libnotmuch internals but am using the python =\r
+bindings extensively.\r
+It feels super-strange using a python module that possibly writes to stderr=\r
+ or any other descriptor\r
+without me explicitly telling it to.\r
+Also, if the library segfauls or calls exit, it essentially rips out the py=\r
+thon interpreter underneath my code\r
+without me being able to do any proper error handling.\r
+\r
+I know that error handling on a library level is hard, juggling around with=\r
+ bare C, talloc and Xapian.\r
+But i can only strongly encourage any rewrite that ends in the python bindi=\r
+ngs behaving more pythonic!\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+/p\r