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: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bop6oje3.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328894718 22285 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2012 17:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 18:25:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDk-0006yr-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:25:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDj-0004el-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDg-0004cG-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDa-0006lJ-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDa-0006lE-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RvuDY-0005tO-HL; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:04 -0500 X-Spook: ARPA gamma Indigo Soviet Verisign bomb Montenegro Al-Qaeda X-Ran: OKO1k&s:*q[]cy:8QU({=/yYQQz]uppylC6hAd@@i}"D4*>GS!+=`h@rznNuIf$rx@]Q]@ X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87bop6oje3.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:25:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148443 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> +This is like `url-retrieve' (which see for details of the arguments), >> +but downloads in parallel. The variable `url-queue-parallel-processes' >> +sets the number of concurrent processes. The variable `url-queue-timeout' >> +sets a timeout." > > The main difference between the functions is that -queue lets you > control the level of parallelism, which `url-retrieve' doesn't. > `url-retrieve' is more parallel than `url-retrieve-queue', so this isn't > a totally helpful doc string... Sorry; I was misled by the fact that the word "parallel" appears nowhere outside of url-queue.el. PS could we curb this trend of following up on the diffs list?