Re: Changes for Emacs 23.1

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> I also noticed that the documentation for nnir is still a stub. Since
>> I've never used nnir, I don't feel competent enough to write something
>> up.
>
> I think at least the config for nnimap groups is so easy, that it could
> be added to the normal section about imap.
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>              '(nnimap "Fastmail"
>                       (nnimap-address "localhost")
>                       (nnimap-stream network)
>                       (nnimap-authenticator login)
>                       (nnir-search-engine imap))) ;; Only this line!

OK, maybe we could at least document the IMAP search features, since
these will probably most widely used. I just think we shouldn't have any
stubs in the Gnus docs which go with Emacs 23.

>> I think if nnir isn't properly documented, it should be removed from
>> Emacs 23.
>
> I'm not in favour of doing so...

Just to be clear: I'm talking about the Emacs 23.1 release branch. nnir
should of course stay in Gnus CVS and in the Emacs development trunk.

> I wonder if anybody uses nnir with some other search engine than imap.
> If not, I'd vote for putting the imap stuff into nnimap.el and dropping
> nnir altogether.

Yes, that would be an option for Gnus CVS, but IMO we cannot introduce
such a change for the Emacs 23.1 release.

-David