[Kde-pim] Mail migration status

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-05-27, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Monday 24 May 2010 22:30:02 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > I do have a general question on config migration: what about using
> > > kmail2rc  (maybe even call the executable kmail2)?
> > > There are probably setttings in kmailrc that do no longer make
> > > sense, the migrator could (assuming we can get a mapping of
> > > settings) just migrate those  which still do.
> > > 
> > > Has the nice side effect of making the same setup still usable with
> > > KMail1 in  fallback scenarios.
> > 
> > We have not done that in the past, we've always used update scripts
> > in kdepim/kmail/kconf_update.
> > However, for KMail2, renaming the binary and the config file name is
> > indeed a good idea.
> 
> +1 for renaming the config file.
> 
> I'm not so sure about the executable because renaming it will break
> scripts and applications which have 'kmail' hard-coded.

We already break all kinds of script compatibilities by removing D-Bus 
interfaces, etc.

If the commandline interface does not change we can document this for 
packagers so they can decide to e.g. install a symlink.
It also allows them to potentially ship both KMails.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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