From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: some more files in gnus/ that seem to be general features Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:42 -0500 Message-ID: <5i3aunjsp1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196460361 14127 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 22:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:06:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 23:06:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IyDyp-0003wX-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IyDyZ-0006Iw-PX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IyDyW-0006Ir-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IyDyV-0006IS-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IyDyU-0006IN-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IyDyU-0001gX-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IyDyU-0001HN-7R; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:04:42 -0500 X-Spook: kibo Forte Cocaine JUWTF Europol class struggle 9705 X-Ran: k}gWHfTF79c:8bAP$AsTt+)L+`[AcR#4SqMd`k@+{9eL^P$f9}}*RJ-=@b0P/OegneIMdn X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84380 Archived-At: 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/.]