From: magnus@therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Subject: [sup-talk] Tilde in maildir/mbox paths
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:44:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914224426.GA4460@die.therning.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070914213823.GA3321@die.therning.org>
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 22:38:23 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>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.
This time with the attachment...
/M
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 7:37 Magnus Therning
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2007-09-07 18:47 ` Magnus Therning
2007-09-14 2:45 ` William Morgan
2007-09-14 21:38 ` Magnus Therning
2007-09-14 22:44 ` Magnus Therning [this message]
2007-09-15 3:41 ` William Morgan
2007-09-15 10:19 ` Magnus Therning
2007-09-17 17:30 ` William Morgan
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