Cyrus IMAPD 2.4

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

On Friday, November 19, 2010 02:07:49 am Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Sure.  Create a "master" utility, let's say "cyrus-imap-tool",
> that calls the utilities like reconstruct, ctl_mboxlist, etc.
> 
> Then, install the real utilities in a private namespace (hardcoded at
> compile time), e.g. in Debian it would be in /usr/lib/cyrus-imap/tools
> or something like that.
> 
> I.e. do what "git" did (including manpage access through --help, or
> through "man <master-tool>-subcommand".  This works, and since there is
> no namespace pollution issues, we won't have anymore stuff like
> "cyrreconstruct" in Debian where some other distros keep it as
> "reconstruct", etc.
> 
> The "cyrus-imap-tool" master tool can have a command to list each
> important path...
> 
> And *please* rename the master daemon to cyrus-master or cyrmaster, as
> that is something that is likely to remain in the main namespace...

"cyrctl" or "imapctl" most probably, over "cyrus-imap-tool", but that's 
detail. The changes you state are reasonable (by the fact that millions have 
it as such already, through our distributions).

I'm afraid the changes constitute a major release bump though, in that many of 
our Cyrus users are on Solaris and BSD, and the changes are most likely to not 
be sustainable in a seemless upgrade path - a few too many of the users 
compile Cyrus themselves I'm afraid.

That said, I think we should go with a Feature proposal Wiki page outlining 
the exact changes we would want to make in this renaming / restructuring 
effort, so we have something to point our finger to, somewhere to distill some 
documentation from, and can collaborate with other people.

Thoughts?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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