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The papers for the elisp SASL library should be solved now, but is it
too late to add the package to Gnus before 5.10?  It is IMHO nice,
modularized, code and has a texinfo manual.  The code is nicer than
the ad-hoc SASL support in imap.el.  The code has been part of XEmacs
for a while:

http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/sasl/

The Sieve XEmacs package has been using it.

I have been running with a imap.el modified to use it for a while, and
any bugs are likely to be rather severe so people should have time to
notice them before 5.10.

So the only really experimental code are my imap.el modifications.

Should I go ahead and add it, or is it too late?