From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62929 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: downloading attachments on demand Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87hd4qziqv.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> References: <29acarvoxa.fsf@james.hut.fi> <871wvvtf6k.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> <4nmzei7hu9.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145395072 18881 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2006 21:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11456@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 18 23:17:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVxa1-0000qr-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:17:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVxZs-0006cg-00; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVxZc-0006cb-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVxZZ-00082G-PK for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVxZX-0007RJ-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:17:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3sarge1) with ESMTP id k3ILHCTO030845 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:17:12 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:22:060418:ding@gnus.org::pthQlJUByEQHtfVo:SRo In-Reply-To: <4nmzei7hu9.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "18 Apr 2006 16:24:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62929 Archived-At: "Ted Zlatanov" writes: > On 18 Apr 2006, jas@extundo.com wrote: > >> Alternatively, as I believe I have proposed before, we could add a >> new backend interface to allow Gnus to query the MIME structure of >> articles, and then only request partial articles, and handle the >> Gnus cache coherency stuff in Gnus instead of in some >> nnimap-specific command. > > Can we combine this work with the flags work we discussed a while ago > (arbitrary flags/tags)? I don't see much connection, actually. How would you combine these two things? > It would probably be easier to do a major backend addition like that > in one effort instead of twice. Adding a backend interface isn't that difficult. > It may also be worthwhile to look at the entire nn* backend system and > how it's implemented in each backend. I'm sure there are lessons to > be learned and code that could be rewritten for better performance or > reliability. Yup.