From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Acronym lookups
Date: 09 Jan 1997 21:49:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2rajuing5.fsf@proletcult.slip.ifi.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "William M. Perry"'s message of Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:28:36 -0800
"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> _ALL_ of this functionality should be available to other applications
> easily, without requiring the user to load up all of GNUS/VM/W3 to be able
> to base64 a !%#*ing file. This is one of the reasons I've been slowly
> rewriting chunks of W3 to be more modular. VM, GNUS, and W3 can all
> benefit from a standard set of libraries that do:
>
> - Mailcap Parsing
> - base64 (en|de)coder
> - Quoted printable (en|de)code
> - rot13 display code
> - URL loading
> - RFC822 header parsing
Hear, hear. One reason I'm not totally grossed out (just slightly
grossed out) by the things happening with Netscape 4.0 (go read
news.software.readers) is that I rely on (at some point in the
(hopefully) not-too-far-off-future) tm (or something) to do the Mimy
things and w3 to do all html'y things. Reinventing wheels is a bore.
So... When's w3 going into the Emacs distribution, Bill? :-)
Lazy loading makes libraries even more useful than they were before --
if they're programmed sensibly (i. e., don't require everything
between heaven and Earth to be loaded in). Which is why I separated
out all non-Gnus-specific article functions into article.el.
But then I put it back in again, because the division wasn't totally
clean... Perhaps I should separate it out again and cleanify it.
Hm.
> As you can guess, I'd say distribute it separately, and do your best not
> to require stuff you don't absolutely need from GNUS, to make it easier for
> people to using it elsewhere.
Yes, I think so too. So I didn't include acronym.el in Red Gnus 0.80
after all.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-09 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-08 13:48 Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 11:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-01-09 11:29 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-01-09 16:38 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 17:17 ` David Moore
1997-01-09 19:28 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-09 20:38 ` Steinar Bang
1997-01-09 20:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1997-01-09 23:31 ` William M. Perry
1997-01-09 23:35 ` Steven L Baur
1997-01-10 0:15 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-01-10 8:03 ` Steinar Bang
1997-01-09 21:51 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-01-10 9:01 ` Wesley.Hardaker
1997-01-09 12:49 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-01-09 16:35 ` Wesley.Hardaker
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