Universal tool - /usr/bin/cyrus

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 13:45 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: 
> Ok,
> can I get the responses on the mailing list as "yes, we are interested
> in such universal tool in case it keeps backward compatibility and
> switches to cyrus user?".

> What about the name? Is /usr/bin/cyrus good?

I'd go with cyrus-tool, like Samba has switched to a single tool named
samba-tool

backward-compat doesn't matter much to me, but I'm just one random guy.
I've always thought the tools, while pretty good, where/are themselves a
bit random/arbitrary in name and syntax.  [But then I'm a big fan of
Powershell's verb-noun consistency]

> In case the answer to both question is "yes" then I'll improve the
> tool to fix those issues mentioned in the mailing list (switching to
> cyrus user, compile time path) and then rewrite the tool into the C
> (so it can call mailbox_reconstruct() and others directly) with
> keeping backwards compatibility (or the usual plan - keep both in one
> major release (2.5.x), print deprecation warnings in next major
> release (2.6.x) and remove them in next+1 major release (2.7.x)).
> How does that sound?