Re: Doing some... maintenance

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:47:20 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Gnus has accrued an awful lot of cruft during the past two, er, three
LMI> decades.  There's stuff like nnslashdot, nnultimate and nnlistserv that
LMI> probably isn't very useful for anybody any more.

LMI> Should I just go ahead and do a deleting spree?

Yes.  Have no fear, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953481/restore-a-deleted-file-in-a-git-repo

LMI> But that's the easy part.  While trying to re-familiarise myself with
LMI> how the mm/html rendering worked, I have to admit I stumbled around a
LMI> lot in the
LMI> mm-text-html-renderer-alist/mm-text-html-washer-alist/mm-text-html-renderer
LMI> variables, and the gazillion different functions in mm-view/mm-decode
LMI> that render HTML with more than a handful of external renderers, and
LMI> more than a handful of different versions of the renderers.

LMI> Just to take an example.

LMI> But there's probably someone, somewhere, that uses lynx as the renderer,
LMI> so touching any of that stuff is probably going to upset someone.

I'm OK with simplifying all of that.  It's really complicated.

Ted