On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 12:05, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26/08/2020 12.21, sebb wrote: > > > > The full generator is only useful for messages that always come from > > the same source. > > Unless all the headers are identical, it will produce a different output. > > > > And until the recent removal of the archived-at header, it would not > > even produce the same result twice for identical archiver inputs. > > Nor would import-mbox produce the same result as the archiver for the > > same message. > > > > It is the least stable generator. > > > > I think it would be a mistake to keep it unless you are keeping them all. > > > > Well...it's stable if you give it the exact same input, and it generates > a sufficiently unique ID that won't collide. It's inherently okay for > some setups where you only have one source of truth, so I've kept it for > now, but it is not the recommended generator.
If the old generators are dropped, it won't be possible to re-import directly into the new database. This affects the Migration description in the README.
