Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories

2010-10-16 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 11:49 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > * Cached Camel provider data moves to ~/.cache/evolution/mail. This > > includes folders.db. Files for local accounts will be divided up: > > index files for searching would go in ~/.cache, whereas actual mail > > content (mbox/Mail

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories

2010-10-16 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Matthew, I welcome the move to XDG at last but... On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 12:34 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > .local/ > +-- share/ > +-- evolution/ > +-- addressbook/ > | +-- <> > +-- calendar/ > | +-- <> >

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories

2010-10-15 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le dimanche 06 juin 2010 à 12:34 -0400, Matthew Barnes a écrit : > Once thing I'd like to get done before Evolution 3.0 is dismantling > ~/.evolution and moving user-specific data to relocatable XDG base > directories [1]. I have an initial proposal of what should go where. > > Migration should j

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-27 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 19:23 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 18:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > > I now have all the migration routines written and I'm fairly happy with > > them. A few more cases to test and I think I may commit this over the > > weekend. > > I decided to d

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-27 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 08:24 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > does this mean that one would be able to keep .evolution folder as is, > with some XDG foo? You know, sometimes is useful to run 2.30.x while > developing 2.31.x on the same machine, where your change makes it > impossible. > > But if it's pos

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-26 Thread Milan Crha
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 18:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > For those following the master branch of git, that means that with any > luck your ~/.evolution directory will soon be gone and you'll have far > more control over where Evolution writes files. Hi, does this mean that one would be

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 18:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > I now have all the migration routines written and I'm fairly happy with > them. A few more cases to test and I think I may commit this over the > weekend. I decided to defer this until at least Tuesday, so that those developers who aren't

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-24 Thread Tobias Mueller
Heya :-) On 24.07.2010 13:16, Matthew Barnes wrote: > Are you suggesting we copy the data instead of moving it? That could be > a -lot- of data. Hm. You could probably hardlink it. Cheers, Tobi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-24 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 07:48 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > An an evolution user and a packager, is this really a good idea? > Shouldn't it be safer to keep it “as a backup” but mark it as already > migrated. This way, another attempt can be tried should the first one > fail, and we don't touch u

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-23 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2010-07-23 at 18:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > * Don't downgrade! Once you cross this threshold, it's going to > be > fairly painful to revert data files back to a state that > earlier > Evolution versions can understand. > > Each of the th

Re: [Evolution-hackers] XDG Base Directories -- Wrapping Up

2010-07-23 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 12:34 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > Once thing I'd like to get done before Evolution 3.0 is dismantling > ~/.evolution and moving user-specific data to relocatable XDG base > directories [1]. ... > [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html I