From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73664 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir: Removing some search engines Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:16:33 -0400 Message-ID: <871v79uu3y.fsf@andy.bu.edu> References: <87vd4n3m0l.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87wrp3lehm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87iq0necet.fsf@andy.bu.edu> <87bp6djym8.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288351045 1465 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2010 11:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:17:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22033@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 29 13:17:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmxX-0000Me-IH for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:17:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmwy-0005xE-3r; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmww-0005x0-1I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:16:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmwu-00078H-95 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:16:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PBmwt-00043K-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:16:43 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmwt-00005N-BN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:16:43 +0200 Original-Received: from rain.gmane.org ([80.91.229.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:16:43 +0200 Original-Received: from cohen by rain.gmane.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:16:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fjhr69oXXMESLlG/m9P5w9//qug= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73664 Archived-At: >>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib writes: Reiner> On Wed, Oct 27 2010, Andrew Cohen wrote: >>>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: AC> So is anyone using: >> AC> swish wais hyrex namazu >> Ted> Not me. >> >> I'm wondering if we could remove some of these? I have been using Reiner> namazu >> up until I switched to imap a year ago. Swish has packages as new >> as Reiner> Apr >> 2009, but the freewais-sf webpage says it is no longer supported, Reiner> and >> hyrex doesn't seem to have any activity since 2004. So I would >> vote Reiner> for >> removing at least hyrex and freewais-sf. Reiner> Is there a compelling reason to remove them? I have been rewriting much of nnir and this just added complexity. Since I don't have any of these search engines I can't test them. But in the end it wasn't too extreme an effort to modify them which I have now done (with the exception of hyrex which I should get to this weekend). So they can all be left in if we want. Reiner> Please ask on gnu.emacs.gnus and here on ding (in a Reiner> dedicated thread) if anyone uses them. I have heard back from one person who uses swish. So that leaves only freewais and hyrex as candidates in any case. Reiner> We could also just mark them as obsolete now (display a Reiner> message when using them maybe) and remove them later if no Reiner> one complains. Probably the best course. Andy