Re: [Evolution-hackers] cached messages, persistent vfolder state, unfinished patch

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 02:18, Not Zed wrote:
> Whilst looking at http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58388 i
> started down the path of 'i wonder if we could keep the message around
> in the vfolder if its busy', and came up with the following patch.
> 
> Then of course i realised 'duh that wont help, the message isn't in
> use, only the uid is'.  Although there are related bugs like 'messages
> vanishes from vfolder and vanishes from popup view too' (although for
> some strange reason, that appears not to be the case anymore).
> 
> It could be an interesting idea, although it can't go in yet without a
> lot of changes.
> 
> This is because a change like this makes messages memory-persistent
> singleton instances rather than being loaded every time you access
> one.  Which means any changes, like is used to generate replies and so
> forth would reflected in all copies, and you would also need non-const
> accessors for all the fields to avoid races, etc.

we might also need/want something to dup the message if we actually plan
on modifying it.

anyways, I'm too nervous about putting in a change like this for 2.0,
tho a later version I'd be ok with working it in.

Jeff