Re: "Fixing up" gnus - (how hard is this?). (was Re: (provide 'nnmaildir))

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> > Might be a lot easier for you to handle code-wise too.
> 
> Yes, I imagine so.

So stepping back for a moment --- you've been working on an nnmaildir
backend, right?  As it stands now, what are the advantages/differences
of that from nnmail?

Because now I'm wondering if I couldn't get most of what I want from
working an appropriate backend, and if you're already pretty familiar
with what's involved, I'm wondering if we might be able to work
together to document the backend interface better, and perhaps work up
from there to add improvements to the API and the rest of gnus to
support some of the things I've mentioned.

In fact, if we can do most I'd want with nnmaildir, I'd be happy to
just help you with that.  Whether or not that would be possible, I
suppose depends on exactly where the performance problems are and what
the nnmaildir requirements are...

Of course this all presumes we'd be doing things that others would be
happy with and things that wouldn't unduly break other people's code.

Thanks for the interest.
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930