From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: some more files in gnus/ that seem to be general features
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5i3aunjsp1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
Here are some more files in lisp/gnus that would seem to be general
features that should live elsewhere. There was a long thread on this,
but it seems to have petered out. Yes, some of these files are old,
but I don't see that this invalidates the discussion. Some of these
files have been mentioned before, but nothing came of it.
dig.el:
"This provide an interface for `dig'".
No dependence on gnus, except for an easily replaceable
`gnus-run-mode-hooks' call.
dns.el:
Does DNS queries.
No dependence on gnus, except for easily replaceable
`mm-with-unibyte-buffer' calls.
format-spec.el:
Allows you to supply a format-like string, eg "bash %u %k", and say
how the % characters should expand.
No dependence on gnus. Used outside of gnus by several files.
binhex.el
A binhex decoder, either standalone or using `hexbin'.
No dependence on gnus, except for the custom items being in the
gnus-extract group for no reason.
uudecode.el
A uu decoder, either standalone or using `uudecode'.
No dependence on gnus, except for the custom items being in the
gnus-extract group for no reason.
hex-util.el:
Convert hexadecimal strings to octet strings and back again.
No dependence on gnus.
sha1.el
Compute SHA1 hashes.
Needs hex-util. No dependence on gnus.
password.el:
"Read passwords from user, possibly using a password cache."
No dependence on gnus.
encrypt.el:
"file encryption routines". Reads/writes encrypted files.
No dependence on gnus, except for easily replaceable calls to
gnus-error. Needs password.el.
[There was some long discussion of this file before. I don't want to
re-open that, merely to say that while this file is in Emacs, it
should be outside gnus/.]
next reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 22:04 Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-11-30 23:02 ` some more files in gnus/ that seem to be general features Reiner Steib
2007-11-30 23:31 ` Glenn Morris
2007-11-30 23:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2007-12-02 18:59 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-01 17:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-01 21:36 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-02 18:39 ` Richard Stallman
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