I was incorrectly using the return value of stat (-1) instead of
errno (ENOENT) to try to construct the error message here.
Also, while we're here, reword the error message to not have
"stat" in it, which in spite of what a Unix programmer will
tell you, is not actually a word.
When documenting these functions I described support for a
NOTMUCH_BASE environment variable to be consulted in the case
of a NULL path. Only, I had forgotten to actually write the
code.
This code exists now, with a new, exported function:
notmuch_database_default_path
This is helpful for things like indexes that other mail programs
may have left around. It also means we can make the initial
instructions much easier, (the user need not worry about moving
away auxiliary files from some other email program).
Looks like we can copy in a hash-table implementation, (from cairo,
say), and then a few _ascii_ functions from glib, (we'll need to
switch a few current uses if things like isspace, etc. to locale-
independent versions as well). So not too hard to free ourselves
of glib for now, (until we add GMime back in later, of course).
Since we're currently just trying to stitch together In-Reply-To
and References headers we don't need that much sophistication.
It's when we later add full-text searching that GMime will be
useful.
So for now, even though my own code here is surely very buggy
compared to GMime it's also a lot faster. And speed is what
we're after for the initial index creation.
This is the beginning of the notmuch library as well, with its
interface in notmuch.h. So far we've got create, open, close, and
add_message (all with a notmuch_database prefix).
The current add_message function has already been whittled down from
what we have in notmuch-index-message to add only references,
message-id, and thread-id to the index, (that is---just enough to do
thread-linkage but nothing for full-text searching).
The concept here is to do something quickly so that the user can get
some data into notmuch and start using it. (The most interesting stuff
is then thread-linkage and labels like inbox and unread.) We can
defer the full-text indexing of the body of the messages for later,
(such as in the background while the user is reading mail).
The initial thread-stitching step is still slower than I would like.
We may have to stop using libgmime for this step as its overhead is
not worth it for the simple case of just parsing the message-id,
references, and in-reply-to headers.
