bug#38011: 27.0.50; [PATCH] WIP on allowing Gnus backends to return header data directly

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:00:36 -0800, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> said:
>
>     Eric> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>     >> On 01/05/21 09:47 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>     >>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>     >>> 
>     >>>> Morally the same: the agent has its own `gnus-agent-uncached-articles'
>     >>>> function, which consults the .agentview file, so it uses that instead of
>     >>>> `gnus-sorted-difference'. But the same idea.
>     >>> 
>     >>> Right.
>
>     Eric> [...]
>
>     >> Anyway, I'll keep looking at this patch for a bit, and see if I can find
>     >> any more problems with it.
>
>     Eric> I found a couple more, in agent file writing, and have pushed a commit
>     Eric> fixing that. So far as I can tell this now works as intended. I've run
>     Eric> side-by-side comparisons of master and this feature branch, messing with
>     Eric> the cache and the agent, and feel fairly confident that behavior is the
>     Eric> same in terms of header fetching, and files written to disk. I think I'd
>     Eric> feel okay merging this, but would also be happy to let it mellow longer.
>
> I think previous experience shows that the only way to find bugs in
> this kind of code is to foist it on us :-)

Bombs away, then!