From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35716 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: An earnest wish from Semi-gnus people Date: 10 Apr 2001 12:14:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171414 4568 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, semi-gnus-ja@meadowy.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24834 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2001 12:13:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24829 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2001 12:13:30 -0000 Original-Received: from dolk.extundo.com (195.42.214.242) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 12:13:30 -0000 Original-Received: from barbar.josefsson.org (slipsten.extundo.com [195.42.214.241]) (authenticated) by dolk.extundo.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3ACEIj17471; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:14:20 +0200 Original-To: Katsumi Yamaoka In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "09 Apr 2001 10:19:42 +0900") Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.102 Original-Lines: 24 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35716 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35716 Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > We Semi-gnus people request earnestly that Oort Gnus can handle the > value of `gnus-newsrc-file-version' which is created by Semi-gnusae > (T-gnus, Nana-gnus, Semi-gnus, etc.) as such as follows: > > gnus-newsrc-file-version > => "T-gnus 6.15.0 r09 (based on Oort Gnus v0.01 ; for SEMI 1.13, FLIM 1.13)" > > Latest Oort Gnus cannot startup with such a value because the function > `gnus-continuum-version' returns nil for that: Does it apply to earlier versions of Gnus as well? Making the fix in OGnus would only help people that went back to OGnus, but it wouldn't help people running Gnus 5.7 or 5.9 that comes with Emacs. So if you install a semi-gnus you can never go back, unless you go back to OGnus betas? (Well, or delete .newsrc.eld...) To solve that, I think Semi-gnusae need to be changed to insert a file-version string that older Gnusae understands. The same would apply to the use of (I think) `gnus-substring' in .newsrc.eld, which Larsi-Gnus never has implemented. So you can't revert to Larsi-Gnus without defining it... Maybe this is fixed now, though.