Universal tool - /usr/bin/cyrus

[Ondřej Surý]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 14:33, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at opengroupware.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 13:29 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> as a part of packaging cyrus-imapd for debian we have talked (and I
>> have coded it) about universal tool (like f.e. git has) which will
>> support all those commands in $libdir/bin/ directory.
>
> Does it automatically su to the "cyrus" [or appropriate] user?

It doesn't, but it should be easy to add.

>> I have called it /usr/bin/cyrus, but it's not published yet, so if we
>> can agree on a need to have such command (and since there is several
>> name clash if the cyrus binaries are installed into /usr/bin I think
>> it's good idea to have such command).
>> I would be happy to recode this into something more universal than
>> just a wrapper script to call /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/<command> so new
>> commands (like make_sha1) could be implemented directly as a
>> subcommand of this universal tool - with fallback to calling external
>> commands. (Look at git source it has a nice example how to implement
>> that.)
>
> Sounds sweet.  Regarding "Look at git source" - in what repository?

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=git.c;h=68334f6a3134bb76a8ffc59e4da773400c59a388;hb=HEAD

Look for handle_internal_command function.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>