Re: tzz-auth-source-rewrite branch

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:05:20 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> The `auth-source-user-or-password' wrapper tries to create an entry
>> currently, which is not OK.  So it's not ready for use.  When I think
>> it's OK, I'll update the manual and merge the branch back into the
>> master branch.

LI> Sounds good.  Let me know when it's ready to use, and we can start
LI> adapting nnimap and/or nntp to use it.

I put it one last change I did last night
(060d648dcb691ba9f4620e320b1cb8409c060fad) to fix some stupid bugs.

I get this warning while compiling:

In auth-source-search:
auth-source.el:507:33:Warning: `error' called with 2 args to fill 0 format
    field(s)

In auth-source-netrc-search:
auth-source.el:712:32:Warning: `error' called with 2 args to fill 0 format
    field(s)

but am not sure why.

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

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

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

Thanks
Ted