From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: imap.el and nnimap.el [was Re: Build failure bzr trunk revno 103260] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:24 -0500 Message-ID: <87d3mts31b.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <8762sn4fgh.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyg72wrl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbc6vf69.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjvq4cyz.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297785662 23676 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2011 16:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:01:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 17:00:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpNKc-0001DX-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43566 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpNKb-0005ak-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40946 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpNIN-0004D2-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpNII-00027v-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:50597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpNII-00027r-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225159.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.159]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1FFwPUS011115 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DE3E01605B7; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:58:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87sjvq4cyz.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:45:24 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.145 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136052 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > However, if the new basic IMAP library is called imap.el, then this > would still break third-party applications. > > Thoughts? I don't know how many third-party applications make use of nnimap, but if they do it would not be very clean, since nnimap requires Gnus. Merging general purpose libraries from gnus/ back into net/ is good, and I support the move. Also, now (i.e. for Emacs 24.1) is as good a time as any for this kind of change.