Re: Gnus package (was: xemacs vs emacs)

[Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer@xemacs.org>]

>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

Reiner> Please accept my apologies for getting it all wrong.

You're forgiven. :-)  Thanks for all your work on Gnus!

Reiner> Are the patches you mention already integrated upstream in the
Reiner> v5-10 branch?

Ah, good question.  It doesn't look like this one is:

2007-03-05  Mike Kupfer  <mike.kupfer@xemacs.org>

	* lisp/gnus-spec.el (gnus-parse-simple-format): Add required 2nd
	  argument to (setq dontinsert), using the fix from the HEAD
	  branch at gnus.org. 

I don't see this one, either.  I don't know if Aidan has approached
someone on the Gnus team about it yet.

2007-12-24  Aidan Kehoe  <kehoea@parhasard.net>

	* lisp/gnus-sum.el:
	* lisp/gnus-sum.el (put-display-table): New.
	* lisp/gnus-sum.el (get-display-table): New.
	Provide with #'defun-when-void, so as to not override the 21.5
	implementation. 
	* lisp/gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-set-display-table):
	* lisp/gnus-xmas.el (gnus-xmas-summary-set-display-table):
	Use #'put-display-table, not #'aref, to deal with the case where
	the display table is a char table and not a vector. 

I didn't look in CVS, but Katsumi Yamaoka said the third patch (or
something equivalent) is in the v5-10 branch (see
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2008-March/001531.html).

MikeK> When 5.10.10 is released, I'll start work to update the XEmacs
MikeK> package.

Reiner> Thank you.

My pleasure.  Though I keep forgetting about that pesky issue of
compatible GPL versions.  That could delay things. :-(

Reiner> So the answer to your question [1] is "yes".

Okay, great!  I guess this means I ought to get on the ding list.
http://gnus.org/distribution.html says I should mail Lars to get write
access to CVS; is that still the right thing for me to do?

Reiner> E.g. announcing the availability of new Gnus XEmacs
Reiner> (pre-release) package on ding and/or gnu.emacs.gnus is fine with
Reiner> me.

Good to know; thanks.

mike