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Subject: ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464
From: murch () andrew ! cmu ! edu (Ken Murchison)
Date: 2009-11-17 14:03:11
Message-ID: 4B02AD1F.9030606 () andrew ! cmu ! edu
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What is your new format proposal?
Bron Gondwana wrote:
> I'm in the process of implementing rfc 5464, which is what the
> ANNOTATEMORE drafts turned into.
>
> Unfortunately, Cyrus' support is an early draft, before the paths
> to everything were changed and the commands were renamed. It would
> be great to be complient, and there is software out there like Kolab
> which would benefit from it.
>
> Also, the database format is pretty nasty - complete with nulls
> embedded in keys and other fun stuff (like platform dependent type
> lengths codified in the format, ick)
>
> So I'm thinking: create a new metadata.db, require a conversion on upgrade
> from annotations.db. I had a look, and none of our servers had ANY
> annotations until I added a /comment to my INBOX for testing.
>
> Does anybody out there use annotations much? Does anybody know any code
> that would be broken by changing the way annotations are done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bron.
>
--
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University
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