From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: Keepng meta-data out of newsrc.eld
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:29:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluhepjsh3n.fsf@extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8zaw27l3.fsf@blue.sea.net> (posting-list@MailAndNews.com's message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:47:04 +0200")
posting-list@MailAndNews.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
> Would it be possible to take out
>
> - Group-specific information Topic layout information other
> - meta-data
>
> and store these separate file out of newsrc.eld?
Yes. Using customize for some of the things, e.g. topics,
shouldn't be too difficult, but splitting up `gnus-newsrc-alist'
requires some more work. I'd like this to happen, so given some
spare time it might happen..
> Now I'm in a process of recreating everyting and I'm more
> convinced that the meta-data should now be in one big
> newsrc.eld. It could hold only the article numbers and ranges
> and stuff. The mailing list parameters (to-list et all,) could
> be easily restored from separate files, because the group
> informations does not much chnage once you get it the way you
> want.
Yup.
> Another idea could be to implement a "dump" that would generate
> metadata out of the newsrc.el and a "re-dump" to restore the
> metadata in event of failure. This could be a kind of backup
> system
Sounds complicated, maybe keeping it simple is better.
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