[sup-talk] on sup

[Magnus Therning]

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Sep 05 22:55:38 +0100 2007:
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> What little Sup currently does in the way of pushing state information
> back into sources, it does through sup-sync-back, which is meant to
> push a batch of state changes back to one or more sources in one go.
> Right now that's restricted to deleting messages marked as deleted or
> spam from mbox sources, but it would be the natural place to push the
> new/read state back as well, at least if you were happy with batch
> operation.

I'm more than happy with batch operations.  I suspect that doing this
outside of sup proper also keeps the main program itself a little
simpler.

I did look at the sup-sync-back tool and noticed that it performs some
mbox operations on its own.  Operations that I feel really belong in the
mbox source class itself.  I feel sup-sync-back would become simpler if
polymorphism was put to use a bit more.  So, do you have any
philosophical problems with a `delete` method being added to the
sources?  (It would probably be followed by a `mark_as_read` in the
future.)

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