Re: is there a possibility for gnus to download data without blocking?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:

> EA> In theory we could have a Gnus that fires off all the servers and
> then EA> returns control to the user immediately
> https://github.com/dickmao/gnus does just that.  It's about a 3500
> line change.  Perhaps 1-2 years from now I will make a concerted
> effort to merge, but given,
>
> 1. the changes are not true multithreading, and 2. gnus users, being
> of a different generation, are generally content to manually retrieve
> and block,
>
> I give the integration less than 50% chance of seeing the light of day.

Interesting! Is this the same patchset you proposed on emacs.bugs a
while ago? I understood that that was about threading, but didn't
realize that the fetch process actually returned immediately. How do you
handle the "surprise" updating, from the user's point of view?

I will take a look at your repo when I have time for more Gnus
deep-dives, which should be in... less than 1-2 years from now? I hope.
I see that you're getting rid of global
gnus-summary-buffer/gnus-article-buffer, and I think those are great
changes regardless of whatever else comes on top of that. Would you be
interested in getting those changes in first?

Eric