Re: gnus and imap

[David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>]

Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>
>> Vitaly, if you're willing to assign copyright to the FSF, please post
>> patches (preferably against current Gnus CVS) as soon as you think it's
>> ready for testing.
>
> That's my intentions. I didn't cover all Gnus sources yet, so is it a
> good idea to post patches?

Yes. Release early, release often. :-)

>>>I decided to teach Gnus how to handle sequence sets in active info.
>>
>> I'm not sure what that implies. Does that mean you're extending active
>> to contain the whole sequence of available article numbers, not just the
>> highest and lowest one?
>
> Yes, exactly.

OK, I'm currently running Gnus with your patches. Nothing exploded. :-)
Group checking seems a bit slower, but I guess that's unavoidable for
better article counts. There are surely some bugs - I sometimes get
wrong article counts when *entering* the group, which is kinda funny,
since it usually was vice versa. Also, groups sometimes seem to be
updated twice when checking for new mail.

I only skimmed through your patches. I see you extended the
nntp-server-buffer to also include a range of all article numbers upon
updating the group. This should work. I still wonder though, why did you
abandon your previous effort to transmit a range of read articles in
gnus-info? It seems easier to me.

Thanks for your work, it's really appreciated. I'll be checking the code
further over the weekend and maybe also get to debugging if I find the
time.

By the way, it'd be good if you could update to CVS Gnus on your
side.

-David