Re: Hydrant(mailutils's MUA) ideas

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:53:08PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > # cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs co hydrant
> > cvs server: Updating hydrant
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository 
> > `/home/cvs/hydrant': Permission denied
> 
> I had given your 'alain' access.  I have now switched it to 'alainm'.

No go.
# cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs co hydrant
cvs server: Updating hydrant
cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/home/cvs/hydrant': 
Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs/hydrant'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

> You might want to email savannah-hackers and have them kill 'alain'

Good point, it confuses me also.

> 
> > > > The real(visible) change is in memory management, where it will
> > > > be required that you xx_destroy() any object you xx_create ()
> > > > or xxx_get_yy ().
> > > 
> > > Ah, even more reason to have c++ bindings.  =)
> > 
> > nice 8)
> > Looking at it now, things could have been so much elegant in C++.
> 
> Probably my fault - The original sample I gave you was in C.  Not only
> didn't I really speak C at that point, I definetly didn't speak C++.
> 
> I don't know if I ever told you that I wrote the original mailproc
> here in Toronto at work one might with a C manual on my lap... =)

8-)
And worked quite well for a first draft.
The code went a long way, I thing part of what you and Jakob did
is still in mailutils/libmailbox/*.