333264 - change name of temporary folder for folder compact from nstmp

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Tobias B. Besemer [:BesTo] (QA)]

Hey all.

Since the last nightly-trunks often crash on compression of folders, I recognized that there will be often leaved an folder called "nstmp".
That this folder shouldn't exist normally is the one thing, the name the other.
I guess that "nstmp" stands for "Netscape-temp"? I'm right?
I think we should rename them to a name which the user can associate something with.
I suggest "compression-temp-folder" - or short "compress.tmp".
What does the others think ???

Greets slim.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/base/src/nsMsgFolderCompactor.cpp#293

Note that there's a whole library that is called NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime library). Should we change that too ?

I don't think it matters.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Gary, can you decide this?

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

I think that's a perfectly fine idea - maybe compact-temp...

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Confirming based on comment #3.

Comment 5

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Jo: the difference between NSPR and this is that this is a user visible thing that people might have to make a decision based on in the course of normal usage.