From: Andrew J Cosgriff <confusenet@polydistortion.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Getting Reacquainted with Gnus
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:06:01 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zlny3aoa.fsf@aviatrix.h.ajcos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4ku994x.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>
David Abrahams wrote :
> After much futzing around with other approaches, I decided to surrender
> to the inevitable truth that Gnus is the one true way (for me).
Yes. I've been off in the wilderness ever since I got a Mac 5 years ago,
though I came to miss Emacs, and started to use Gnus again in the past
year, if only to look at gmane.*.
> My first step was to go to http://gnus.org and look for documentation.
Perhaps it's worth just having it point to
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryGnus ? Though I notice
the first link to the tutorial there is broken, too (I don't suppose
anyone has a copy of it around for us put somewhere?)
[...]
> I'm using a self-built snapshot of GNU Emacs that reports itself as
> version
>
> 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-05-03
[...]
> I still don't know what version I should be using. I guess the only
> thing newer than 5.13 would be a development snapshot?
Yes, though I believe Emacs CVS is synced up with Gnus CVS fairly(?)
regularly these days.
> My point in writing this post is that the environment for someone trying
> to get started with the latest, best Gnus is not too friendly. I would
> like to see updated documentation available on gnus.org, and I'd
> especially like to see clear guidance there about what to download when
> acquiring gnus. Even sinking the ognus and ngnus packages into a
> subdirectory called "alpha" would be a big help.
For the time being it seems like the latest, best Gnus is whatever your
Emacs ships with. If you want anything more recent, you're best pulling
it down via CVS, since actual development "releases" are pretty few and
far between these days, it seems.
I'm happy to try and hack up a bit of content for an updated (but very
basic) gnus.org website that merely answers a few key questions like
- what is it? why do i want to use it?
- how can i get:
- the latest stable release
- the bleeding edge development releases
- how do i get started?
- where can i find more information? (emacswiki, mailing list, etc.)
(and maybe something to generate both the latest stable manual and the
latest CVS development one into HTML)
...is anyone interested?
Cheers,
Cos. (wondering exactly happened to that Gnus cap he had all those
years ago...)
--
http://andrew.j.cosgriff.name/ | do not ingest
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 0:42 David Abrahams
2008-07-31 5:06 ` Andrew J Cosgriff [this message]
2008-07-31 23:39 ` Ian Swainson
2008-08-04 7:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-09 18:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2008-08-10 0:43 ` Andrew J Cosgriff
2008-07-31 18:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
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