How's the buglist going now?

How's the buglist going now?

[Mike McEwan]

Hi,
  It's a little late in the evening, but I've decided to post anyway.

  I was wondering if Lars, or anyone in the know could tell me when
expiry under the `agent' is likely to be sorted out - only I've just
done another `gnus-agent-expire' which would appear to have messed
with my .overviews - another expire sorted it out.

  Whilst I'm here, I note that in the `Newest Features' node of the
gnus manual for quassia, there is the intention to `push active file
and NOV file parsing down into C code'. This would really speed things 
up no? I've just started with C and was curious as to how this might
be easily accomplished - would the active file and/or NOV files be
passed to a C program in a buffer via the elisp `call-process'
function and the parsed output returned in another (or perhaps the
same) buffer? If I can work out what kind of parsing takes place here, 
I'd like to give it a go - some kind of high level spec would help (my 
elisp is novice too).

  I appreciate the above may be already in hand, but 'Newest Features'
does seem a rather long list and I was just interested in something
tangible I could cut my teeth on (or smash my face, perhaps).

-- 
Regards, Mike.
  

     

Re: How's the buglist going now?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Whilst I'm here, I note that in the `Newest Features' node of the
> gnus manual for quassia, there is the intention to `push active file
> and NOV file parsing down into C code'. This would really speed things 
> up no? I've just started with C and was curious as to how this might
> be easily accomplished - would the active file and/or NOV files be
> passed to a C program in a buffer via the elisp `call-process'
> function and the parsed output returned in another (or perhaps the
> same) buffer?

No, Lars will write a C subr to do the gory work.  I offered to port
the code to XEmacs.

It would be kind of cool to be able to enter the control group without 
requiring slrn's assistance.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Thou Who might be our Father Who perhaps may be in Heaven...
                                                -- Roger Zelazny

Re: How's the buglist going now?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   I was wondering if Lars, or anyone in the know could tell me when
> expiry under the `agent' is likely to be sorted out -

Today or tomorrow is my plan.

>   Whilst I'm here, I note that in the `Newest Features' node of the
> gnus manual for quassia, there is the intention to `push active file
> and NOV file parsing down into C code'. This would really speed things 
> up no? I've just started with C and was curious as to how this might
> be easily accomplished - would the active file and/or NOV files be
> passed to a C program in a buffer via the elisp `call-process'
> function and the parsed output returned in another (or perhaps the
> same) buffer? If I can work out what kind of parsing takes place here, 
> I'd like to give it a go - some kind of high level spec would help (my 
> elisp is novice too).

RMS and I went over this a while back, and we decided on something.
I've got it archived somewhere, but I don't recally the details
exactly.  We settled on a quite general scheme.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen