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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8055: 24.0.50; [nnmaildir/Gnus] please support in-filename Maildir flags
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:29:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei774w2v.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14.1297867010.18127.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:24:15 +0100 Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> wrote: 

LC> I guess there is nothing new in the nnmaildir support in Gnus, at least
LC> it seems that nothing has changed since Brian Nelson's rant on the
LC> debian-user@ mailing list back in 2004-08-04 [2].  

LC> [2] Message-ID: <87hdrivzuk.fsf@scabbers.bignachos.com>
LC>     URL: <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/%3c87hdrivzuk.fsf%40scabbers.bignachos.com%3e>
LC>     URL: <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c87hdrivzuk.fsf%40scabbers.bignachos.com%3e>

Also see:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/125311/focus=69753

(short version: nnmaildir was engineered for concurrent access and can
be heavily optimized with secondary indices instead of the current
link-happy system)

IMHO, nnmaildir should be rewritten.  The Maildir* spec is not all that
complicated and things have changed a lot since nnmaildir was written.
I would propose it on the Gnus mailing list, not as a bug.

Ted


       reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.14.1297867010.18127.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-16 19:29 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-02-16 14:24 bug#8055: 24.0.50; [nnmaildir/Gnus] please support in-filename Maildir flags Luca Capello
2011-06-29 23:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-29 23:47   ` Glenn Morris
2011-06-29 23:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 19:27       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-30 19:53         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 21:36           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-06 13:36   ` Luca Capello

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