From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39631 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus 5.9.0? Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:10:33 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u1wrgtjq.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <874rore8oq.fsf@nwalsh.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175312 29014 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Norman Walsh , ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13756 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 23:12:16 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 23:12:16 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15voDy-00045O-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:11:14 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:10:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA03624 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:10:40 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13744 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 2001 23:10:51 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13739 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2001 23:10:51 -0000 Original-Received: from hank.lickey.com (64.81.100.235) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 23:10:51 -0000 Original-Received: from squeaker.lickey.com (squeaker.lickey.com [192.168.100.10]) by hank.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C359EE30; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:10:36 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D70BD52; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:10:34 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by squeaker.lickey.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9AA49BD2D; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:10:33 -0600 (MDT) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:16:54 +0200") Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39631 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Norman Walsh writes: >=20 >> What's the relationship between gnus 5.8.8, the most recent that I >> can find on any of the gnus.org servers, and 5.9.0 which apparently >> ships with Emacs 21.1? >=20 > I think they are quite similar. Maybe 5.9 is missing a couple of > files (the contrib directory comes to mind). Maybe 5.9 has more > bugfixes than 5.8.8, maybe less, maybe just a different set. >=20 > I guess they are close enough that you can just use cvs to diff the > 5.9 branch against the 5.8.8 release. >=20 > I'd say to use 5.9 if you can and to use 5.8.8 as a substitute or if > one of the minor changes is important. I did a diff of gnus 5.8.8 (as downloaded from www.gnus.org) and the emacs 5.9 as part of emacs 21. They looked fairly similar. Most of the changes looked related to emacs 21 specific features (improved help, etc.). --=20 matt