Re: [sup-devel] Toggling usual status of sources

[Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>]

Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of Wed May 12 00:44:29 -0400 2010:

> Not at all.  If you do that, I'll switch to rotating inbox.

Cool!

> > [1] This is along the lines of my 'patterned/dynamic source' idea
> > that I briefly described a few nights back, but I think that was
> > eaten...
> 
> Patterned/dynamic/recursive sources are in my todo-list.  Haven't
> got around implementing it yet.  Gave it some thought though.  Did
> you consider them "virtual" (as in bunch of "physical" maildir/mbox
> stores made transparently look like one source) or "meta" (as in
> template source which sup uses to generate a set of "physical"
> sources)?  Which one would be better?

I was thinking meta, but virtual is interesting too.  I _think_ that
meta would be easier to implement given the current code structure.  I
also think having each of the 'dynamic' sources listed explicitly in
sources.yaml has some merit.

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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