Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Would you say that this would still be true with a dependency management
> mechanism that downloaded and installed required dependencies
> automatically?

Yes.  Well, unless everything depends on everything else.

To take a trivial example, I was tinkering with the Gnus code to jump to
a group.  Somebody suggested providing ido completion as an option, and
that sounds reasonable.  If I can assume that ido exists in Emacs, I can
just write the code.  If not, I have to test and stuff.

I mean, it's not like it's "OMG I HAVE TO TEST" hassle to do that, but
when you have to test for so many things, the code gets really boring to
write, hard to read, and difficult to debug for interactions between
different combinations of things that may or may not exist in the Emacs.

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