[PATCH] RFC: impliment gzipped output for notmuch dump

[Jani Nikula]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> writes:
>
>> Is it reasonable to require zlib? It's possible to have conditional
>> build for this, but it will be laborous to do it cleanly. I could be
>> persuaded either way, perhaps more easily to just requiring it.
>
> If I recall correctly, xapian needs zlib.  At least on Debian this is a
> hard dependency. What is needed additionally is the zlib headers.

Okay, no point in adding complexity in notmuch then.

> I couldn't decide which was sillier: to have have gzipped output but not
> input, or to leave off the command line argument (it's something like 3
> lines of diff). I lean to making it accessible from the CLI to better
> support testing.

Testability is a good point; otherwise we'd have to add an extra tool
for testing the interface, which is also silly. If we don't add restore
support now, I think we can consider this a documentation issue.

One more thing: do we need to ensure we don't emit gzipped stuff to the
terminal?

BR,
Jani.