Re: [Patch] tell expiry-hook functions where expired messages are going

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 2014-08-06 20:14, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>
>>> I've reverted the change in the Gnus git master and the Emacs trunk.
>>> Please reinstall the feature if you get a good solution.  I have
>>> no idea for it so far, sorry.
>>
>> Here is an adaptation of Eric's patch that takes these problems into
>> account. As the target is either a string, the 'delete symbol, or
>> a function, I test those in turn. In the case it's a function, the
>> result from the call should be either a string or a 'delete symbol or
>> a string. In the case it's a 'delete symbole, the hook is called with
>> 'nil' as target.
>>
>> Eric: I reused your log message, I hope you don't mind.

>I don't mind at all, of course! This seems like the only solution that's
>likely to work. The only sure-fire solution would be to have the expiry
>functions return a list of articles they expired, and where they expired
>them to, but that's the opposite of what they do now -- they return a
>list of article that *weren't* expired.

Installed.  Thanks!