Re: tzz-auth-source-rewrite branch

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:47:35 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote: 

TZ> You can just grab auth-source.el from my branch and test with that, or
TZ> "git checkout tzz-auth-source-rewrite" if you prefer to test in my
TZ> branch.  I think it will work either way.  Merging the ChangeLog has
TZ> been a pain (as you can see from the many commit messages).

TZ> I tested `auth-source-user-or-password' compatibility and it seemed OK:
TZ> I was able to use Gnus with the new auth-source.el, using both
TZ> unauthenticated NNTP connections and authenticated NNTP and IMAP
TZ> connections.

TZ> When you think we're ready, I'll merge my branch back into master and
TZ> change all the invocations of `auth-source-user-or-password' in Gnus to
TZ> DTRT.  Then when Yamaoka-san merges with Emacs I'll change all the Emacs
TZ> libraries to DTRT as well.

See mail-source.el, nntp.el, and nnimap.el in my branch for fully
functional (though uncached) implementations using
`auth-source-search'.  I still need to change the
`auth-source-forget-user-or-password' call in nnimap.el but I need the
cache implementation first.

Testing would be most welcome.  Just do
"git checkout tzz-auth-source-rewrite" and you're ready
(do "git checkout master" to go back).

Ted