severity 499524 minor tags 499524 wontfix thanks hiya,
(for posterity this was also discussed on IRC) On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:20:25AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > It may make sense for OfflineIMAP to create seanius.net in the above > example, but I don't think it makes sense for it to create ~/mail. > Programs shouldn't go around creating directories willy-nilly. What if > you had made a typo and said ~/msil? I'd rather have the error than > create a directory on what may be a different filesystem or something. > > Your thoughts? personally i think that either (a) it should not do a mkdir() at all (and i could see an argument for that as well), or otherwise (b) trust that i can use a text editor and attempt to create any necessary leading components. however, this is not at all worth arguing over, and based on our IRC conversation it seems that you see things differently. therefore i will pre-emptively reclassify the bug :) sean --
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