From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67205 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Getting Reacquainted with Gnus Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:21:33 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <87d4ku994x.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217834606 807 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2008 07:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 07:23:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15662@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 04 09:24:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KPuQP-0002N0-DU for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:24:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KPuOD-00078w-0H; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:21:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KPuOB-00078m-Fh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPuO7-0002GJ-Re for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1KPuOT-0005Ze-00 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:22:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KPuO1-0001R8-A3 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:21:45 +0000 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:21:45 +0000 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:21:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fencepost.gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Cancel-Lock: sha1:RAk5xgohc8/2HLy2h1gEFfuMnus= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67205 Archived-At: Andrew J Cosgriff writes: >> I still don't know what version I should be using. I guess the only >> thing newer than 5.13 would be a development snapshot? > > Yes, though I believe Emacs CVS is synced up with Gnus CVS fairly(?) > regularly these days. Yes. Currently "regularly" is about every 2-3 weeks. > For the time being it seems like the latest, best Gnus is whatever your > Emacs ships with. That's pretty much true if you're using Emacs from the CVS trunk. > If you want anything more recent, you're best pulling it down via CVS, > since actual development "releases" are pretty few and far between > these days, it seems. More or less, though Gnus development releases might be useful for people that don't want to run a CVS Emacs, but want a newer Gnus. BTW, another point that might be worth mentioning is that the Gnus bug reporting email addresses don't seem to reach anybody, or at least, the only way I've found to get a response is to send to the development mailing list. -Miles -- XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.