Re: [PATCH 4/4] Support reading inboxes from ~/.public-inbox/config

[Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>]

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On Thu, Jun 10 2021, Kyle Meyer wrote:

> A client may mirror and configure inboxes locally.  Doing so enables
> fast local access to public-inbox-httpd and public-inbox-nntpd.  And
> with the next pubic-inbox release (v1.7), it will be necessary to set
> up local externals for lei.
>
> That can lead to a good amount of information being duplicated between
> the piem-inboxes option and ~/.public-inbox/config.  To avoid this,
> let users set an option to enable collecting information from
> public-inbox's configuration.
>
> This relies on code getting the list of inboxes with
> piem-merged-inboxes rather than inspecting piem-inboxes directly.
> That should be okay because at this point there should be very few
> third-party callers.  An alternative would be to merge values from the
> configuration into the value of piem-inboxes.  That'd let callers
> continue to inspect public-inboxes, but I'd prefer not to touch the
> value of a user option.
> ---
>
>     Xinglu, just a heads up: it looks like git-email-piem.el uses
>     piem-inboxes.  That will continue to work after this patch, but
>     it'd be good to eventually switch those spots over to calling
>     piem-merged-inboxes.

Thank you for the heads up!  I will put that on my todo list :)

BTW, I saw that you recently added an interface for lei, excited to try
it out!


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