On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:29:28 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > i'm CC'ing the upstream lead developer of gmime here to see if he has > any thoughts (and can correct any misrepresentations from me) -- Hi Jeffrey! > > On 05/30/2011 02:43 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2011 11:44:05 -0700, Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org> wrote: > >> CC -O2 notmuch-reply.o > >> notmuch-reply.c: In function ‘notmuch_reply_command’: > >> notmuch-reply.c:658:3: error: unknown type name ‘GMimeSession’ > >> notmuch-reply.c:659:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘g_mime_gpg_context_new’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] > >> /usr/include/gmime-2.6/gmime/gmime-gpg-context.h:64:21: note: expected ‘GMimePasswordRequestFunc’ but argument is of type ‘int *’ > >> make: *** [notmuch-reply.o] Error 1 > >> > >> This seems to have been introduced in Jameson's crypto patch series... > >> > >> ./configure shows: > >> > >> Checking for Xapian development files... Yes (1.2.4). > >> Checking for GMime development files... Yes (gmime-2.6). > >> Checking for Glib development files (>= 2.14)... Yes. > > > > Hey, Dirk. Looks like you're using gmime-2.6, which is something I've > > never looked at, and it looks like there are API changes. This of > > course doesn't help you, Dirk, but this probably means we should require > > libgmime-2.4, at least until we can figure out how to support both > > versions, which I'm not sure how to handle. > > > > Dirk, just out of curiosity, what system are you running that is > > provides gmime 2.6? > > F15 probably means Fedora 15. Correct > gmime 2.6 has not been released yet; gmime 2.5 is the development > version (which itself has an unstable API); the project uses the > even=stable/odd=unstable version numbering scheme. > > As the dev version, gmime 2.5 identifies itself as 2.6. I'm not sure i > can justify this decision. Jeffrey, can you explain? > > If F15 does not have gmime 2.4 available in it, it's possible that it > may not be able to build notmuch :/ That's where I am right now. But here's the odd thing: gmime-2.6 support was explicitly added to the configure script last year: http://notmuch.198994.n3.nabble.com/PATCH-configure-Add-support-for-GMime-2-6-td722706.html And it's only a recent change to notmuch that broke the build on F15 (it's one of the patches for the crypto support). So in my book this is a regression for notmuch! > I don't think that notmuch should attempt to target a library with an > unstable API. But if anyone is interested in preparing for the gmime > 2.6 release (maybe jeffrey can hint at the timeline for us) may want to > prepare changesets that #ifdef the relevant code depending on the API > version. > > Once gmime 2.6 is released, we'll need to decide if we want to remain > compatible with the old API as well, or just require gmime 2.6; but i > don't think we need to cross that bridge right now. Given what I wrote above you'll be unsurprised that I don't agree with this interpretation of the situation. This used to work and used to be supported and was broken in a recent notmuch patch. /D