From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Fishman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning Gnus groups into real objects Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:34:30 -0400 Message-ID: <7no91nsh0p.fsf@ecube.ecubist.org> References: <87k1cg5ujl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wogf8sei.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87zhlb2per.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <877e8e89os.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87ftn17tey.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87o91o7try.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <877e8c2mhe.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="216629"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 21 14:34:47 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB38-000uDX-Ev for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:34:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55886 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB36-0005gK-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB34-0005gA-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB33-0003E3-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:60422 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB32-0003DA-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hpB30-000u7l-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:34:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:xVeg+K6yft5rN3vCPJ1u0V6Eo8w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238763 Archived-At: This seems like its going to be a full rewrite, where some users are forced to have to do a lot of work just to keep their code working. Would it be a bit easier if you just forked the project and used a new package prefix. Then the code could get debugged as a separate mail system, and people could transition to it at their convenience. It would certainly make finding one's code that needs to be changed easier, and since the data file are kept the same, one can avoid loosing any data even if they try both systems (not concurrently) during a transition. -- Barry Fishman