Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> However! I do agree that this change should probably use the existing
>> upgrade machinery, which means it would make most sense to hold off
>> until Gnus ups a version tick.
>
> Isn't Gnus a part and only a part of emacs nowadays, i.e., no separate
> repository anywhere?  In that case, I'd say just go ahead in master so
> that it'll hit the masses with Emacs 27.  I don't think many people
> switch from a newer emacs to an older one on one machine [1], or use
> different emacs versions on different machines but sync their
> newsrc.eld.

That's what I assumed.

Gnus is developed inside Emacs but it has its own version numbers,
though I'm not clear how much they're actually used now, apart from
checking if newsrc.eld is out of date, and updating it.

> Bye,
> Tasslio
>         
> [1] Well, except people like us running the git master and have the
> latest release as a fallback.  So probably it would be a good idea to
> make Gnus backup newsrc.eld somewhere...

It would be a bit tricky to just make _one_ backup -- how do I know if
nothing's been backed up yet, or if it's been backed up but the user has
then deleted the backup? I guess I'd still like to use the built-in
upgrading functions -- at the very least it's nice to prompt the user
and let them know that something's happening. Maybe I can just bump the
Gnus version for wherever it's at when Emacs 27 is released.