Re: Unable to create Dejanews nnweb groups

["Rene H. Larsen" <rhl@traceroute.dk>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Rene H. Larsen" <rhl@traceroute.dk> writes:
> 
> > What if Gnus were to first try the current method, and if that fails,
> > ask (y-or-n-p) if it should try DejaNews.  This could be customizable
> > by setting gnus-article-refer-try-dejanews to 'always, 'never, or
> > 'ask, e.g.
> 
> Hm.  I'm not much of a fan of queries, really.  I think people should
> just customize this to do what they want.

I can certainly sympathise with that in the general case.  The reason
I was looking for a way to make Gnus query whether to try Deja is that
I have an intermittent Internet connection, and there is no easy way
to tell if the Internet connection is up.  I don't want Gnus to try
and contact Deja when the connection is down, but I would like to have
the option to do so when the connection is up.

I did try mocking around with gnus-refer-article-method, and using the
example from the Info documentation, namely

     (setq gnus-refer-article-method
           '(current
             (nnweb "refer" (nnweb-type dejanews))))

does not seem to work correctly.  Pressing ^ on an article whose
parent is still present on the server works correctly.  However, if I
press ^ on an article whose parent has expired, XEmacs complains:

  Cannot open load file: current

The backtrace is:

  signal(file-error ("Cannot open load file" "current"))
  load("current" nil t nil)
  require(current)
  gnus-server-opened((current (nnweb "refer" (nnweb-type dejanews))))
  gnus-check-group-server()
  gnus-request-article-this-buffer(-4 "dk.edb.system.unix.hardware")
  gnus-article-prepare(-4 nil)
  gnus-summary-display-article(-4 nil)
  gnus-summary-goto-article(-4 nil t)
  gnus-summary-refer-article("<syvK3.1969$et6.51290@news010.image.dk>")
  gnus-summary-refer-parent-article(1)
  call-interactively(gnus-summary-refer-parent-article)

This is with a CVS pgnus as of ten minutes ago.
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