From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
Cc: 21462@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21462: 25.0.50; Gnus thread gathering and sorting inverted
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:50:54 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh6uiu4x.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tntd1s7f7tu.fsf@watermonitor.yellow.cert.org> (Michael Welsh Duggan's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:08:45 -0500")
Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org> writes:
>>> 1) gnus-make-threads -> gathers articles into threads by ref
>>> 2) gnus-cut-threads -> removes "uninteresting" articles from the
>>> threads
>>> 3) gnus-sort-threads -> sorts the threads (with respect to each other thread)
>>> 4) gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function -> gathers threads with
>>> similar characteristics (subject, reference) into a single thread
>>> 5) gnus-sort-gathered-threads -> sorts the articles within each thread
[...]
> Is there a good reason for step 3 and 4 above to be in the given order
> instead of the reverse?
I think the reason they are in that order is for historical (and
backwards compatible) reasons: The predicates that work on thread
sorting will normally fail on gathered threads (which are lists of
thread roots). I think.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-11 17:34 bug#21462: 25.0.50; Gnus thread gathering and sorting inverted Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-02-07 5:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-07 7:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-02-08 4:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-08 17:08 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2016-02-09 0:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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