Re: [Evolution-hackers] EPlugin, export mail folder, Update!

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 03:36 +0100, smurfd wrote:
> So ive been abit buissy, and poking some on the plugin from time to time
> too. 
>
> Here is how its going to work. 
>
> One rightclicks the folder one wants to export.
> One gets a "save to directory" dialog.
> One chooses directory.
> The directory structure + mbox-files are created in that folder.
> (ill also look into the possibillity of running some compression on it,
> hopefully by using zlib)
What sort of directory structure?
> The other i sortof got working atm.
>
> Though i got some ugly system("mkdir -p ") hack, to create the folder
> structure. That, and a function for putting together the path of the
> folders to extract, from /path/choosen/by/widget/ +
> /the/folder/structure/ =
> /path/choosen/by/widget/the.sbd/folder.sbd/structure.sbd/
Well you can do all this in code easily, without running any system commands.
> When all that is done, i then think of running the compression on the
> whole folder.
>
> That way you get both a compressed file and the hole directory
> structure. (pro, you get to choose if you want to delete it or save it.
> con, it takes up alot of space)
I'd probably suggest generating a cpio archive of this structure, then you compress that in one go.  You get better compression, and you get a file that can be manipulated using existing tools.  cpio works a bit better with pipes and so on than tar might, and tar is possibly less portable across different platforms.
> Oh yeah, one only gets 1 dialog. The rest is done automaticly.
Sounds good.

 Michael

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