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Gnus update (was: MH-E 7.4.4 checked in)


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Gnus update (was: MH-E 7.4.4 checked in)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:20:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, Jul 15 2004, Miles Bader wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:22:42PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
[...]
>> Don't people get along just fine with using an "unmodified" Oort Gnus
>> on CVS emacs ?
>
> Sure (including me).

ACK.  Some days ago someone posted a User-Agent statistics for the
German Gnus newsgroup (<news:address@hidden>).  It
showed that many people already use Gnus 5.10 (or "No Gnus", the
current development version) together with Emacs 21.3.50.

> But there do seem to be `real' changes in the emacs version -- many of them
> are fairly trivial (e.g., spelling corrections, or updating Gnus not to use
> some obsolete feature), and there are some which appear non-trivial but
> which I don't understand.
[...]
> If I had a better handle on which changes were really important, it would be
> simpler to do as you say (and forward-port only those important changes), but
> I don't really, and the sheer quantity of changes makes it hard to spend a
> lot of time to analyze each one.

I would assume that all *important* changes committed by Dave and
ShengHuo in Emacs' CVS have also been applies in Gnus CVS.  But
probably this has been done after the v5-8 point which you considered
upto now.

> As it is, though, it's looking like no matter what I do, something will end
> up broken, so the "give up and drop most of the emacs changes" approach is
> looking better and better.  However, I'd still like  to munch on it for a
> while (I haven't had much time to spend on this recently) before deciding
> that.

Most of the Gnus changes in Emacs were committed by Stefan Monnier,
Juanma Barranquero and Andreas Schwab.  If we go for this approach (I
think we will have to do this eventually), I'm optimistic that these
people will point it out if important changes got lost.

Bye, Reiner.
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