From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail changes for Emacs 22 Date: 24 Oct 2002 22:37:03 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035495567 23473 80.91.224.249 (24 Oct 2002 21:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, pmr@pajato.com Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 184phN-00066S-00 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:39:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 184pjk-0007zu-00 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 23:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 184pgK-0006Yh-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 184pfB-0004zc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 184pf9-0004zJ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 184pf7-0004xB-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 184pf5-0007OZ-00; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:37:03 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8748 Richard Stallman writes: > I hope you'll consider what Gnus does, > though I doubt you can use its code directly (unfortunately). > > We could consider it if someone explains what it is. > To figure it out by reading the code would probably > take more time than I can spend. I don't know what PMR thinks. I'd have to read the code too for details, and I'm also not sure how Rmail works. I assume larsi should explain the Gnus design. However, it's clear it maintains mbox-type files effectively as received -- articles aren't re-written except, perhaps for additional headers. I don't think it makes sense to do anything else if you're going to provide MIME processing, as I presume Rmail users would hope. I'd guess it's useful to figure out how VM works too; I think that works with mbox files too.