Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Henrik Enberg]

> 
>       * Gnus BABYL support will break.  Since the new Rmail no longer knows
>       how to decode BABYL, neither will Gnus.  This is unfortunate, but
>       more or less unavoidable, given the way Rmail is designed.
> 
> Gnus should covert Babyl files into mailbox files.  (So should Rmail,
> I guess.)  The unrmail command, plus the old code for reading Babyl files,
> ought to suffice for this.

This is what the mbox branch does.  When you read in a file, it will
check the format, and if is BABYL, it automatically converts it to
mailbox with unrmail.  It should be pretty easy for Gnus to do something
similar.

> That is the only kind of support for Babyl files that we can retain
> in the Rmail-inbox code.  It would be too much of a pain to try to
> support actually editing both formats.

Indeed.