From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: instead of gnus-cloud.el
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:44:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lh17wba8.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1bMpyB-0000v9-CR@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 01:10:55 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Thus, I was perturbed to see that a file in Gnus grants legitimacy
> to the term "cloud" by using it. The name ought to be changed.
The name is humorous -- a parody of the term "cloud computing".
> I was going to suggest another name based on what the file does.
> But I can't figure out what it does. The only explanation is one
> line at the top of the file, and it doesn't say much. That is
> bad maintenance.
It's a feature under development, and is not used by anybody, so
documentation of this non-existing feature would be premature. Up until
very recently we weren't quite sure what it was going to look like, but
it's shaping up now.
It's a mechanism for storing data (in the first implementation, Gnus
data) on your local IMAP server, so that you can access your Emacs
environment from all the machines you use Emacs.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2016-07-12 5:10 ` instead of gnus-cloud.el Richard Stallman
2016-07-12 7:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-07-13 13:04 ` Richard Stallman
2016-07-13 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-12 13:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-12 15:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-13 14:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-13 13:06 ` Richard Stallman
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