Mathias Beyer [1] points out that this note is redudant since Xapian
no longer builds with the problematic versions of Xapian.
[1]: id:20210207124404.yldgtzjrsagacrl4@hoshi
GMime 3.0 is over 2 years old now, and 2.6 has been deprecated in
notmuch for about 1.5 years.
Comments and documentation no longer need to refer to GMime 2.6, so
clean them all up.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Correct URLs that have crept into the notmuch codebase with http://
when https:// is possible.
As part of this conversion, this changeset also indicates the current
preferred upstream URLs for both gmime and sup. the new URLs are
https-enabled, the old ones are not.
This also fixes T310-emacs.sh, thanks to Bremner for catching it.
We're now preferring to build with python3 instead of python2. Update
the INSTALL to match.
Thanks to Antoine Amarilli <a3nm@a3nm.net> for pointing this out!
Many of the external links found in the notmuch source can be resolved
using https instead of http. This changeset addresses as many as i
could find, without touching the e-mail corpus or expected outputs
found in tests.
It's becoming a maintenance burden to do anything things with the
crypto glue code twice, once for 2.4 and once for 2.6. I don't have
any 2.4 version available to test on my development machine anymore,
so the 2.4 specific code paths are likely not very well tested.
The main goal is to support gzipped output for future internal
calls (e.g. from notmuch-new) to notmuch_database_dump.
The additional dependency is not very heavy since xapian already pulls
in zlib.
We want the dump to be "atomic", in the sense that after running the
dump file is either present and complete, or not present. This avoids
certain classes of mishaps involving overwriting a good backup with a
bad or partial one.
This is the output from sphinx-quickstart, massaged a bit, along with
our existing man pages converted to rst.
A skeleton notmuch-emacs manual is also included. It is not suitable
for end user use yet.
The INSTALL file still had old information about the "make
install-emacs" command which no longer exists. README was also giving
pointers on how to develop a real interface, (which is not the right
thing since README should be addressed to users, not coders).
So remove the stale and misplaced information, and instead add a new
"Running notmuch" section to the README describing how to run the
notmuch command-line interface and how to run the emacs interface.
These versions provide greatly desired performance advantages for
notmuch.
Previously, theses details existed in an old NEWS entry, but most
users are unlikely to find those details there. Put them here where we
mention the Xapian dependency.
Write down the steps needed to install and actuall use notmuch in emacs. Should
help emacs newbies.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
