Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge

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+From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>\r
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+Subject: Re: notmuch as a shared object aka library knigge\r
+Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:04:52 +0100\r
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+Quoting David Bremner (2012-02-24 01:29:36)\r
+>On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:22:00 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-=\r
+hamburg.de> wrote:\r
+>\r
+>> That wasn't meant to sound as harsh as it probably did. I seriously\r
+>> hope that someone is around who enjoys to hack on the c/c++ part of\r
+>> the library and is willing fix problems in it.\r
+>\r
+>Luckily I deleted my snarky reply ;).\r
+\r
+*phew* ;)\r
+\r
+>> And I worked around the two functions (that I know of) that call\r
+>> exit(3) by conditionally raising exceptions in the python bindings,\r
+>> but this is only meant as a intermediate fix, a hack that should be\r
+>> removed as soon as the library is fixed.\r
+>\r
+>Can you make test cases to document exactly when internal errors are\r
+>occuring in the library? Somehow it seems like the CLI is not triggering\r
+>them. It might help clarify the discussion and/or motivate people to fix\r
+>them.\r
+\r
+I did ;) I provided a python program in my original mail for\r
+Database.get_directory aka notmuch_database_get_directory and the one\r
+for Database.find_message_by_filename aka\r
+notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename can be trivially derived\r
+from it (though you need a path to a mail within your maildir). It\r
+should be straight forward to port those to c if you want to.\r
+\r
+Justus\r