From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64146 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wrong use of "path" in spam.el Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:53:19 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167227688 18372 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 13:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12669@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 27 14:54:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzZEx-0004AO-W6 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:54:44 +0100 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 1GzZEC-0003uY-8A; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:53:56 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GzZEA-0003uF-QL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:53:54 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GzZE8-0000ow-OS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:53:54 -0600 Original-Received: from fw01.cmbrmaks.akamai.com ([80.67.64.10] helo=smtp1.akamai.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GzZE7-0001yM-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:53:51 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp1.akamai.com (vwall.kendall.corp.akamai.com [172.17.4.35]) by smtp1.akamai.com (8.13.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kBRDr2Sx005991 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:53:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from dhcp-65-162.kendall.corp.akamai.com (dhcp-65-165.kendall.corp.akamai.com [172.16.36.21]) by smtp1.akamai.com (8.13.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kBRDr1ig005986 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:53:01 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue\, 26 Dec 2006 18\:33\:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64146 Archived-At: On 26 Dec 2006, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote: > in GNU, we use the term "path" only for a list of directories to > search, like the value of PATH. So we should *not* use "path" in in > all those `spam-*-path' variables and doc strings. We should rename > those variables to `spam-*-program' and mark the former as obsolete. > > I'm not 100% sure that it's a good idea to do this now (while Emacs 22 > is in pretest), but OTOH spam.el was not part of Emacs 21 so it's > probably better to do it now so that Emacs 22 will have the right > names. Opinions? I'm OK with that. Since the old variable names will work today, I expect the support issues to be minimal. But the manual will also have to be updated, and we need to check with the Emacs maintainers regarding the 22 prerelease. Ted