From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: magnus@therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:38:23 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] Tilde in maildir/mbox paths
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References: <20070907073721.GA10465@die.therning.org>
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Message-ID: <20070914213823.GA3321@die.therning.org>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 19:45:56 -0700, William Morgan wrote:
>Hi Magnus,
>
>Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Fri Sep 07 00:37:21 -0700 2007:
>> I find it useful to be able to stick '~' in paths so here's an attempt
>> at a patch that allows a source with the URI maildir:~/mail/in.
>
>Thanks for the patch! What about modifying this slightly so that the
>~-expansion is done at the string level instead of the URI level, in a
>method called Source#expand_filesystem_uri or something. Then Maildir
>and MBox::Loader sticks the output of that method into URI.
>
>I think that change will solve two problems: it will make clear that
>the expansion method is filesystem-specific (i.e. even though the
>method is in Source, only filesystem sources want to call it), and it
>will allow us to support URIs the "right way", without the weird
>#opaque stuff and without dropping all mbox:// and maildir:// URLs.
>What do you think?

File.expand_path requires the tilde to be at the start of its argument,
so that prompted the strange #opaque stuff.  I made some changes and
stuck a modified patch in the attachment.  Let me know what you think.

/M

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