From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnus for next release Date: 10 May 2004 20:23:08 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040509230720.GB20485@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084214183 26769 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 18:36:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 20:36:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFdN-0005xF-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:36:13 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFdN-0007ve-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:36:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFTd-0004TS-JC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFRT-0003z5-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFQq-0003kN-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFQq-0003k4-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:23:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFQj-0001O7-Fm; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:23:09 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23064 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23064 Richard Stallman writes: > Of course the updates in Gnus should be installed. > It is a problem that Gnus changes take so long > to get installed in Emacs--they should do it more often. Agreed. I remember that when I switched to CVS Emacs, I was surprised that it did not contain the OORT Gnus everybody was talking about in the context of Gnus for I don't know how long. I mean: what better test bed than CVS Emacs should one desire, once one has a more or less consistent feature set? Many qualified testers, and no promise that it will work. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum