From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48424 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: NOV code in Gnus Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:38:07 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041304818 22028 80.91.224.249 (31 Dec 2002 03:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 03:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TCwu-0005iv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18TCwe-0003BH-00; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:19:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:20:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA15669 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:20:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 64840 invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2002 03:19:26 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 64834 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2002 03:19:25 -0000 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (80.91.231.2) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 31 Dec 2002 03:19:25 -0000 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TCw9-00036L-00 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 04:19:25 +0100 X-From-Line: nobody Sat Dec 28 19:38:08 2002 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Seely's _Parentha See_: "Lucky Penny" Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: |J writes: > Ah, yes, my description wasn't very good. I was thinking about something > the other way around. Say I'd like to provide another implementation for > storing NOV data. There seems to be no easy way to do this, as the > knowledge about the implementation of NOV storage is scattered around, > and there are many functions that assume that it's just going to be text > files. Well, that is what NOV files are, isn't it? :-) But, yes, the NOV parsing/generating code is somewhat confused, both for hysterical reasons and for reasons of efficiency. For instance, `nnheader-parse-overview-file' just, well, parses a NOV file, while `gnus-get-newsgroup-headers-xover' parses a NOV file while doing threading, gathering, washing and making a nice 5-course meal for the entire family. > So, I'm thinking about a unified interface for storing and accessing NOV > data. The actual number of places that NOV files are stored/accessed is also quite large, but most of them use the nnheader functions for generating/parsing the files. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen