[notmuch] Using notmuch from Ruby, Python, et al.

[Scott Robinson]

Excerpts from Jeffrey Ollie's message of Wed Nov 25 08:33:39 -0800 2009:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Scott Robinson <scott at quadhome.com> wrote:
> >
> > == Shared Library
> >
> > I have modified the build to output a shared library. It's a small change
> > relying on libtool.
> >
> > However, the archives indicate Carl dislikes libtool?
> 
> Ugh, please, let's not go down the autoconf/automake/libtool route.

I didn't use autoconf and friends. Just put in libtool where $(CXX) and $(CC)
are. Going with the system defaults.

See the attached patch.

> > == JSON output
> >
> > I added a --output=(text|json) option to "search" and "show." Then, emit json
> > results appropriately.
> >
> > To accomplish this, I used the cJSON library sans parsing logic.
> >
> > However, I saw discussion about providing a --format option?
> 
> Awesome, I was just looking at using json-glib but I haven't gotten
> very far yet, mainly because I've never used it before (nor done much
> of anything with JSON). I was going to call the option
> '--output-format=(standard|json)' but I'm not going to worry about the
> color of that bikeshed.
> 
> IMHO, I think both approaches would be valuable, that way people
> writing front ends could choose the methods that worked best for them.
>  Do you have patches that you are ready to share?
> 

Yes!

As the json work is a bit more substantial, is it preferable to start a [PATCH]
thread or link to a git repo?
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