Re: gnus and imap

[Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

>> Sounds good to me. However, before you do too much work on this, and
>> since this is a change in the Gnus internals, maybe someone who is more
>> familiar with the code base (Reiner?) can say if this is desirable to
>> do.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with the backend code and I'm quite
> short of free time ATM (and I'll be on holiday during most of
> September).  I'll be glad if you and/or other developers find time to
> review and test Vitaly's patches.
>
> Additionally, we need to decide how to continue Gnus development, so
> I'm not sure if we want to install back end changes at this time.

Well, these changes will simply break everything except nnimap, so it
can't be committed at the moment. Another idea is to fix active info in
Gnus itself and to make it able to handle ranges of article numbers, not
only one range. It doesn't require any changes in backends (unless
some of them want to pass ranges of articles, like nnimap). I'm working
on it currently. I hope, it will solve many problems with articles
numbers.

-- 
wbr, Vitaly