[sup-talk] Tilde in maildir/mbox paths

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 22:38:23 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 19:45:56 -0700, William Morgan wrote:
>>Hi Magnus,
>>
>>Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Fri Sep 07 00:37:21 -0700 2007:
>>> I find it useful to be able to stick '~' in paths so here's an attempt
>>> at a patch that allows a source with the URI maildir:~/mail/in.
>>
>>Thanks for the patch! What about modifying this slightly so that the
>>~-expansion is done at the string level instead of the URI level, in a
>>method called Source#expand_filesystem_uri or something. Then Maildir
>>and MBox::Loader sticks the output of that method into URI.
>>
>>I think that change will solve two problems: it will make clear that
>>the expansion method is filesystem-specific (i.e. even though the
>>method is in Source, only filesystem sources want to call it), and it
>>will allow us to support URIs the "right way", without the weird
>>#opaque stuff and without dropping all mbox:// and maildir:// URLs.
>>What do you think?
>
>File.expand_path requires the tilde to be at the start of its argument,
>so that prompted the strange #opaque stuff.  I made some changes and
>stuck a modified patch in the attachment.  Let me know what you think.

This time with the attachment...

/M

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