Re: nnir.el?

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 09 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> I forget, can someone remind me why nnir.el is in contrib/ and not
>> lisp/?
>
> I vaguely remember something about missing or unclear copyright
> assignments.  But Kai or Christoph should know more.

I once thought that there were other changes, but it turned out that
Christoph was so productive that I thought he was three people ;-)

Since Christoph and me both have the paperwork, it would be possible
to incorporate nnir.el into the mainstream.

However, I confess that I'm not that happy with nnir.el.  The
infrastructure sucks, especially regarding all the parameters that you
have to set up.  gnus-namazu.el manages to do things without any
configuration.

And then, it should support searching across servers, but for this one
would need to specify a common query language and then translate that
into the query language of each backend.  (Of course, there should be
a way to pass the query to the backend literally, for those cases
where only one backend is involved.)

That said, I don't want to denigrate people of something they find
useful.

Kai