Re: pop3.el itegration with netrc.el

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> Hopefully by moving the files away from emacs/lisp/gnus/ the
>> auto-sync gateway won't merge the files back into Gnus 5.10.
>
> It would surely require some additional work for Miles.  It's not a
> fully automated process, AFAIK.

The sync process ignores file location, it uses the arch "id-tags" you
can see at the bottom of each source file.  So if you move a file in one
tree, I'll have to intervene to make sure that it does/doesn't move in
the other tree (whichever is appropriate), but subsequent changes to the
moved file will still propagate.

If you want the association between files to be completely broken (I
don't think you usually do), then you can remove the arch-tag: line at
the bottom of one copy (it will get a new one automatically).  It's
_not_ desirable in general to do this; if a particular file needs
special care with regard to propagating changes, just tell me, and I'll
watch out for anything funny.

The main problem is ChangeLogs:  if you add entries to lisp/ChangeLog
(in Gnus) or lisp/gnus/ChangeLog (in Emacs), it's clear that they should
simply be propagated to the corresponding file in the other tree,
because the changes they describe almost certainly will be as well.

However, if files from Gnus are present in other Emacs directories, then
this easy 1-to-1 correspondence is lost, so it will likely require me to
manually deal with such ChangeLog entries.  This problem already exists
with texi/ChangeLog, but it's not that heavily updated, so it hasn't
proved much of burden; hopefully the bulk of Gnus changes will still
remain inside the main gnus source even if these "generic" files are
moved.

But anyway, dealing with ChangeLogs is a relatively minor hassle becuase
it's only 1 or 2 files, and if it gets too annoying I'll write a script
that deals with it.

-Miles
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