On Sun, Apr 19 2020, Kirill Elagin wrote: > Hello, > > Notmuch contains a bit of logic for “normalising” the database path: it can > be relative to $HOME and fallsback to $MAILDIR or $HOME/mail. However, this > logic is implemented in `notmuch_config_open` and is not available through > bindings. So if a third-party tool wants to discover the database, it will > either do this incorrectly ([alot]) or will have to roll its own > implementation ([afew]). Neither option is good. > > [alot]: https://github.com/pazz/alot/issues/1396 > [afew]: https://github.com/afewmail/afew/pull/233 > > Rather than reimplementing it in bindings, I see two possible solutions: > > 1. Move the logic to `notmuch_database_open` itself. > 2. Extract into a separate C function, use it in `notmuch_config_open`, and > expose through bindings. > > What do you think? There has been thoughts to dump the configuration file, and put the configuration to the database -- so then the bindings can just open the database to find the configuration.... oh wait... In this case we'd find the database in $NOTMUCH_DATABASE_DIR[ECTORY?] or in $HOME/mail/.notmuch/... if that env var did not exist. There are at least 2 issues to solve with this approach: 1: SMOP 2: how to edit the configuration using text editor (preserving comments), i.e. export and import functionality 3. review latency (especially w/ large patches...) ;/ > > Cheers, > Kirill Tomi _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch