Re: ANNOTATEMORE => METADATA and rfc 5464

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On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 23:28 +1100, 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?

Just for an occasional comment and expire values.

Nothing where we couldn't dump, parse, and re-apply.

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