[neomutt-devel] Time to kill Buffy

Richard Russon rich at flatcap.org
Fri Aug 3 13:46:26 CEST 2018


Historically, developers have given temporary things funny names: foo, bar, baz.
That's fine whilst development is going on, but when they leak into live
code it becomes a problem.

Much as I love the work of Joss Whedon, naming objects after Vampire
Slayers is a bit odd.  It was probably funny twenty years ago; now it's
a bit embarrassing.

`struct Buffy` is a mailbox, so it will become `struct Mailbox`

I'm currently trying to insert an Account object into the hierarchy to
allow account-specific config.  This will require some rearrangement so
that we have:

    Account -> Mailboxes -> Emails

rather than:

    Incoming -> Mailboxes
    Context -> Emails

Cheers,
    Rich / FlatCap
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