Re: Strange server names confusion

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> So maybe the Gnus source should be searched for rogue occurrences of
> gnus-method-equal and gnus-methods-equal-p (what's the difference?).

Well, one is a function, and one is a macro, though it's not clear
why.  gnus-methods-equal-p considers (nnchoke "foo") to be equal to
(nnchoke "foo" (param value)) if nnchoke uses 'address in
gnus-declare-backend.  If it doesn't, then all nnchoke methods are
equal for g-m-e-p.  For gnus-method-equal, two methods are equal when
they have the same backend and following list elements are equal, but
in a possibly different order.  g-m-e-p also interprets nil arguments
as gnus-select-method, unlike g-m-e.

> I'm guessing that Gnus should use gnus-server-equal in most places.
> What do you think?

I'd like it if Gnus were less tolerant of sloppiness.  Then it'd be
harder for users to make a mess of their configurations.  So if a list
is found where a string is expected (or vice versa), there should be a
nice error message telling the user how to fix the problem.


paul