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* imap.el in net??
@ 2007-12-12 19:16 Stefan Monnier
  2007-12-13 16:51 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-12-12 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Could someone explain to me why we moved gnus/imap.el to net/imap.el
rather than to the more obvious mail/imap.el?


        Stefan

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* Re: imap.el in net??
  2007-12-12 19:16 imap.el in net?? Stefan Monnier
@ 2007-12-13 16:51 ` Richard Stallman
  2007-12-13 16:58   ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2007-12-13 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel

    Could someone explain to me why we moved gnus/imap.el to net/imap.el
    rather than to the more obvious mail/imap.el?

I chose `net' because it seemed more appropriate than `mail'
for a program to communicate directly thru the network.
However, I do not want to argue the issue.

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* Re: imap.el in net??
  2007-12-13 16:51 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2007-12-13 16:58   ` Stefan Monnier
  2007-12-13 18:45     ` Reiner Steib
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-12-13 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rms; +Cc: emacs-devel

>     Could someone explain to me why we moved gnus/imap.el to net/imap.el
>     rather than to the more obvious mail/imap.el?

> I chose `net' because it seemed more appropriate than `mail'
> for a program to communicate directly thru the network.
> However, I do not want to argue the issue.

Its sole purpose is to access remote mailboxes, so it seems to count as
"mail" to me.  What do others think?


        Stefan

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* Re: imap.el in net??
  2007-12-13 16:58   ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2007-12-13 18:45     ` Reiner Steib
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Reiner Steib @ 2007-12-13 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: Simon Josefsson, rms, emacs-devel

On Thu, Dec 13 2007, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>     Could someone explain to me why we moved gnus/imap.el to net/imap.el
>>     rather than to the more obvious mail/imap.el?

Simon suggested "net" and nobody came up with other suggestions within
a week, see <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/82283/focus=83269>
(hidden in the thread "SASL related files in gnus/").

>> I chose `net' because it seemed more appropriate than `mail'
>> for a program to communicate directly thru the network.
>> However, I do not want to argue the issue.
>
> Its sole purpose is to access remote mailboxes, so it seems to count as
> "mail" to me.  What do others think?

I would have chosen "mail" as well, but I don't have a strong opinion.

Bye, Reiner.
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