From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Cc: 37926@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:04:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bltz21w4.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r22w2ij7.fsf@dick> (dick r. chiang's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:05:32 -0400")
dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:
> It doesn't fix anything. I think Eric Abrahamsen adequately describes the
> change in a parallel thread.
Not really -- he says that it complicates things, but not exactly is
meant to be achieved by the patch.
> The introduction of a separate `gnus-secondary-select-methods` rather than
> merely vectorizing `gnus-select-method` seems a youthful indiscretion that's
> persisted to the present-day.
No, it was done to retain backwards compatibility.
> The "insider" convention of specifying a primary of `nnnil` to
> symmetrize one's other backends has caused a collective double-take
> among newer users like myself.
Very few people use the nnnil thing -- all it gives you is that you
don't get any unprefixed groups.
So again I ask you -- what does your patch do? Does it make all the
groups prefixed? If you can't explain what the patch does, it doesn't
seem likely to be applied.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-25 20:08 bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods dick.r.chiang
2019-10-26 20:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-10-26 20:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-02 13:09 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 13:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-02 14:09 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 14:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-27 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-27 18:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-02 13:41 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 14:10 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-11-02 14:52 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 21:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-10-28 3:55 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-28 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 13:54 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-28 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 6:05 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-29 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-29 16:35 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-11-17 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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