Re: Moving Gnus development to Emacs?

["Göktuğ Kayaalp" <self@gkayaalp.com>]

On Thu, Dec 31 2015 at 12:15:32 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> […]
>> So: I want to know how all y'all would feel if I closed git.gnus.org and
>> started bringing the Gnus code base in the Emacs trunk up to modern
>> Emacs standards.  That would mean removing basically all compat code.
>>
>> No more `mm-string-as-unibyte'.  No more `gnus-invisible-p'.  Freedom!
> How much more work would it be to keep the external repo, but split the
> different versions into different branches? Ie, an "emacs-master" branch
> (which gets bundled into Emacs releases), an "Xemacs" branch, and an
> "SXEmacs" branch (whatever that is).
> […]

Hi all, I'm a n00b to the list,  however I wanted to add my two cents to
the discussion.  Sorry if I say sth. silly.

If my memory is  good enough, I recall the new  GNU Emacs maintainer say
on a  recent interview [1] that  he wish to « modularise »  Emacs source
tree, i.e. move non-essential bits to their own projects.

I think vanilla  emacs bundles too many things, so  I back such attempt.
Installing packages in Emacs is very  easy today, one command is enough.
No need to bundle tetris, doctor,  etc., nor Org and Gnus.  Abrahamsen's
suggestion of branches seems good.  Alternatively, given that many Emacs
modules  begin   with  a  suit   of  /polyfills/,  maybe   a  standalone
/backports.el/ module should be created, so  that all the Elisp devs can
target  only  the  latest  release  without guilt.   Also  Gnus  can  be
developed  that way,  without  need to  maintain  /ports/ for  different
emacsen,  should a  good common  backports package  be available.   Gnus
releases target  the latest GNU  Emacs release,  and users of  older GNU
versions and  other emacsen  maintain the backports  package to  get the
cool  stuff.   This would  help  all  the  Emacs community.   Maybe  the
possiblity of this should be discussed on emacs-tangents.

[1] Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat with John Wiegley
    Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUjgKoOYxos>

All the best,
-gk

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