mu Mu/Guile revamp after 1.8

Thanks for mu and the guile interface!

Earlier the guile interface used to support mu:save-as that was very convenient, for example, to save attachments in files. However, above functionality was subsequently removed (issue #1408).

Any chance of reintroducing this functionality? Alternately any way to write attachments out to a file? Be a great help.

Apr 19 '21 11:04 sidhu1f

Oh, that's ancient code! The guile interface has been neglected a bit for the last few releases, have a vague plan for revamping it... but that will take a while.

For now, I'll take this is as an RFE reminder.

Apr 20 '21 08:04 djcb

If there is guile code to be written/modified, I would be happy to pitch in. Could you please provide some idea of what needs to be done?

May 14 '21 11:05 sidhu1f

Ha! So as per the (hopefully imminent) 1.8 release, the guile/ code is officially deprecated. However, I plan on adding something new, which takes better advantage of the rest of the new infrastructure. E.g. in 1.8 we have a cached s-exp for each message in the database, which we can use directly from Guile, rather than having to go between C and Guile for each field.

Anyway, it's something for the future. I'll hijack this ticket for keeping track :-)

Jun 09 '22 06:06 djcb