From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rasmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation of nnoo.el Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:17:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbdphbg5.fsf@gmx.us> References: <87615q88kh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87k2u66nvx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436700023 8881 80.91.229.3 (12 Jul 2015 11:20:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:20:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 13:20:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFIs-0006dA-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:20:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFIr-0001E5-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFIn-0001D8-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFIk-0002iQ-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFIk-0002hW-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEFGK-0005XR-3D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:17:36 +0200 Original-Received: from tsn109-201-152-227.dyn.nltelcom.net ([109.201.152.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:17:35 +0200 Original-Received: from rasmus by tsn109-201-152-227.dyn.nltelcom.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:17:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsn109-201-152-227.dyn.nltelcom.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BrJPoSCuGHIljEk/6ct6PVTtmRo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187815 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > 3. Easier hackage/extensibility. Contributors currently have very hard > time figuring out how everything works; this would help. Subclassing > would also make it much easier for people to write new backends, or > modify existing ones. It's extremely hard to write patches for Gnus 'cause it's so hard to figure out what is going on. And dev. documentation is/docstrings are not the best, though user documentation is pretty awesome. Rasmus -- C is for Cookie