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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>,
	Ronny Chevalier <chevalier.ronny@gmail.com>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch_thread_get_authors
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:33:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mo9ne0a.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhhlhryd.fsf@csail.mit.edu>

Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:

> You're completely right that there's no way to reliably parse the
> authors list returned by notmuch_thread_get_authors. So don't do
> that. Just use notmuch_thread_get_messages, walk the messages list, and
> build your own authors list. There's no need to introduce additional
> complexity and surface area into the library API for this specific use
> case (IMO, even notmuch_thread_get_authors shouldn't exist, but it's
> there for legacy reasons.)

Ah, so when my DEPRECATED macros get merge, we should deprecate that
function maybe.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 16:04 notmuch_thread_get_authors Ronny Chevalier
2015-04-20 23:35 ` notmuch_thread_get_authors David Bremner
2015-04-21 12:22   ` notmuch_thread_get_authors Ronny Chevalier
2015-04-22  1:28     ` notmuch_thread_get_authors Austin Clements
2015-04-22  1:33       ` David Bremner [this message]
2015-04-22  2:01       ` notmuch_thread_get_authors Ronny Chevalier
2015-04-22  2:22         ` notmuch_thread_get_authors Austin Clements

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