syncmail - patch to handle filenames with spaces
This qualifies as a hack in my book, but it works well for our repository. I modified an unknown version of the python syncmail script on our CVS server to properly deal with filenames in the cvs repository that have spaces in them. Attached are the patch against our previous version of syncmail and an actual copy of our whole syncmail script (since it has no obvious version numbers, etc).
Why send this here? A friend pointed me to the mailman project as being the maintainers of the python syncmail script. I hope he's right (i didn't see anything obvious mentioning such on the webpage).
Previously the version of syncmail we used would send emails saying "***** Broken: Foo no such file" instead of showing the diff of the file named 'Foo goes to the bar' (ie: a filename with evil spaces in it). With this it works with spaces.
enjoy or ignore, Greg
"GP" == Gregory P <greg@mad-scientist.com> writes:
GP> This qualifies as a hack in my book, but it works well for our
GP> repository. I modified an unknown version of the python
GP> syncmail script on our CVS server to properly deal with
GP> filenames in the cvs repository that have spaces in them.
GP> Attached are the patch against our previous version of
GP> syncmail and an actual copy of our whole syncmail script
GP> (since it has no obvious version numbers, etc).
GP> Why send this here? A friend pointed me to the mailman
GP> project as being the maintainers of the python syncmail
GP> script. I hope he's right (i didn't see anything obvious
GP> mentioning such on the webpage).
GP> Previously the version of syncmail we used would send emails
GP> saying "***** Broken: Foo no such file" instead of showing the
GP> diff of the file named 'Foo goes to the bar' (ie: a filename
GP> with evil spaces in it). With this it works with spaces.Greg,
Thanks for the new syncmail script. Actually syncmail is used by the Mailman project, the Python project, (and momentarily, the mimelib project). It's probably also still used by the Jython project.
So there are versions in each of those project's CVSROOTs, as well as a version in the Python snippets section of the SF Python Foundary. Between all those, I've found at least 4 different revisions of syncmail! I think the latest one is version 3.16 that Fred Drake hacked last.
I'll try to take some time to synchronize all these versions, and upload the merge to the Python snippets (and Mailman and mimelib projects).
Again, thanks, -Barry
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