From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:45:31 +0000 (+1800) Subject: deprecating legacy text output X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee523971bde17c5538b3412c6f9c081b6004acc1;p=notmuch-archives.git deprecating legacy text output --- diff --git a/3e/a5edb3f9dee4b400dcfd04256b91df1d65b4f5 b/3e/a5edb3f9dee4b400dcfd04256b91df1d65b4f5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2a59788f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/3e/a5edb3f9dee4b400dcfd04256b91df1d65b4f5 @@ -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 olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFED9431FC7 + for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:45:37 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id 2IUXH-9OGr5W for ; + Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:45:36 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55619431FAE + for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:45:36 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from remotemail by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.72) + (envelope-from ) + id 1SojBX-0006F7-FX; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:45:35 -0300 +Received: (nullmailer pid 11892 invoked by uid 1000); + Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:45:31 -0000 +From: David Bremner +To: Jameson Graef Rollins , + notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: deprecating legacy text output +In-Reply-To: <87wr2by2d1.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +References: <87liisue70.fsf@nexoid.at> <87fw8zvqmm.fsf@nexoid.at> + <87liir944f.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> + <87wr2by2d1.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.12 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.1.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:45:31 -0600 +Message-ID: <87a9z7kzg4.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +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: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:45:37 -0000 + +On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:04:10 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: +> On Tue, Jul 10 2012, Mark Walters wrote: +> > I think I would also add something saying that the text format is just +> > different (and that a significant chunk of the patch is just that). +> +> Can we not just dump this output format once and for all? Does anything +> use it? And if so can we just modify it to use a more sensible format? + +I think we need to at least deprecate the format for a release or so, as +there are definitely people using it in the wild. As far as I know the +at least the Vim interface uses it (what about notmuch-mutt?), in +addition to whatever homebrewed scripts might use it. Since +scriptability is one of the "notmuch core values", I guess we should +also provide something more script friendly than json. As you say, it +doesn't have to be exactly like what we have now. + +d