From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: I can haz cloud idea
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:41:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty2mne8r.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874numii6j.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:15:16 -0500")
Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
> I'm also not sure that a DCVS is a magic bullet here, since we're
> going to need problem specific merging and updating. For example,
> Gnus should remember the last state it saw on the server, and
> propagate changes back and forth, rather than copying over the
> new data (in case it has also been changed by another client).
Gnus will be uploading diffs, of course, and not the complete
.newsrc.eld file.
> It really seems like getting all the marks out of .newsrc.eld
> and putting them in the backends would unify many ideas in Gnus.
And going in the other direction, which Ma Gnus is, also unifies many
things. :-)
As for the "merging different views" -- that's not going to happen in
any meaningful way. If you're reading stuff offline on two different
machines (without ever going online), one client is going to win when
you're finally going online.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Sent from my Rome
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-20 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 5:03 Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 6:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 8:19 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-02-16 9:27 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 9:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 7:00 ` Vegard Vesterheim
2012-02-17 17:49 ` Richard Riley
2012-02-19 15:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-19 18:04 ` Andy Moreton
2012-02-19 22:15 ` Dan Christensen
2012-02-20 7:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2012-02-20 19:20 ` Dan Christensen
2012-03-10 1:18 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-20 7:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-20 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-19 19:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2012-02-21 21:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-03-10 1:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-10 12:43 ` Reiner Steib
2012-03-10 13:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-18 14:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-07-18 20:52 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 8:25 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 9:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-16 9:23 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 9:29 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 9:25 ` Steinar Bang
2012-02-16 11:55 ` Greg Troxel
2012-02-16 12:23 ` David Engster
2012-02-16 12:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-16 12:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-16 13:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-20 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-25 9:46 ` Steinar Bang
2012-03-10 1:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-03-03 3:20 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2012-03-10 1:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-15 23:31 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2014-10-16 8:34 ` Steinar Bang
2014-10-16 12:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
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