From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning Gnus groups into real objects Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:33:20 +0100 Message-ID: <865zo0ibxb.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87k1cg5ujl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="3556"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 23:33:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYP-0000mT-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:33:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60630 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYO-0005Yp-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYL-0005YS-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYK-0003jm-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:59430 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYI-0003hF-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hnrYF-0000e5-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:33:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:nXeb0lj31S8dFxhY35AVTF3me3Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238623 Archived-At: On Wed 17 Jul 2019, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > [The following is some musings on changing the implementation of > mail/news groups in Gnus, and can be ignored if that doesn't interest > you. I'll send in actual code as bug reports, later.] This all sounds useful and sensible. It should make it easier to maintain gnus and to extend it to support new backends etc. I assume that the idea is to change the runtime representation, while leaving the serialized state in .gnusrc.eld unchanged. Please write tests when doing this refactoring work, so that it is easier to detect when changes cause compatibility problems. Thanks for working on this, AndyM