Cyrus 2.3.10 RC2

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 12 07:27:47 EDT 2007


On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:45:40AM +0100, David Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
>
>> I'm unix hierarchy seperator here.  So sync_server is looking in the wrong 
>> file.  It should replace a . with ^.
>
> sync_client and sync_server use Cyrus internal names everyone (master and 
> replica could have different unixhiersep options).

Which could be handled by converting from external to internal
representation in the command line arguments presumably?

>> Anyway if I run sync_client like this:
>>
>> sync_client -v -v -l -u rudy^gevaert at ugent.be
>
> This is a rather unfortuanate side effect of this.

Hence my argument for calling them something completely different
depending on what format they are and being really clear with
the variable naming and documentation so there's never any
doubt about exactly which varient you're suppose to pass to any
particular command line or API.

Bron.


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