Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

[Glenn Morris]

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?

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> PS could we curb this trend of following up on the diffs list?

Does it matter much whether we discuss on the diff list or emacs-devel?

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Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

[Glenn Morris]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Does it matter much whether we discuss on the diff list or emacs-devel?

Not a huge amount, but I never expect to see discussion on the diffs
list. Eg I'm never going to search the archives to see if something was
discussed before, whereas I do with emacs-devel. I would configure the
diffs list to reject postings not originating from Savannah, but it may
not be possible.

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

[Stefan Monnier]

> PS could we curb this trend of following up on the diffs list?

That would be good, yes.  I don't think it's a terrible problem, but we
shouldn't post to *-diffs.  I do post occasionally, but always
by mistake.
For the elpa-diffs list, I've set the dreaded Reply-To to emacs-devel,
but it seems this was not done in the emacs-diffs.  I'm not sure
Reply-To: is the right approach (when replying to those messages,
I most often only want to reply to the sender rather than to
emacs-devel).
I guess we could otherwise set a spam filter that rejects message with
"Subject: Re:".


        Stefan

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107222: Document url-queue-retrieve

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> For the elpa-diffs list, I've set the dreaded Reply-To to emacs-devel,
> but it seems this was not done in the emacs-diffs.  I'm not sure
> Reply-To: is the right approach (when replying to those messages,
> I most often only want to reply to the sender rather than to
> emacs-devel).

If the problem is people replying without looking where their replies
are going, and if people want to send private replies most of the time,
then setting reply-to: emacs-devel will make things worse than they are
now.

> I guess we could otherwise set a spam filter that rejects message with
> "Subject: Re:".

Maybe couldn't hurt. Might just turn all discussions into private ones
though.