Re: Doing some... maintenance

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> LMI> Should I just go ahead and do a deleting spree?
>
> Yes.  Have no fear, see
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953481/restore-a-deleted-file-in-a-git-repo

So we can start with backends.  I think the way to do this is to remove
them one at a time -- that is, delete the backend file, and then delete
all mentions of it from the rest of the source code and the
documentation.

Here's the complete list of backends:

nnagent.el
nnbabyl.el
nndb.el
nndiary.el
nndir.el
nndoc.el
nndraft.el
nneething.el
nnfolder.el
nngateway.el
nnimap.el
nnir.el
nnkiboze.el
nnlistserv.el
nnmaildir.el
nnmairix.el
nnmbox.el
nnmh.el
nnml.el
nnnil.el
nnrss.el
nnslashdot.el
nnsoup.el
nnspool.el
nntp.el
nnultimate.el
nnvirtual.el
nnwarchive.el
nnweb.el
nnwfm.el

Yikes.  Anyway, I think the candidates for deletion are:

nndb.el        mostly not updated since 1997.  Goner, I think
nnkiboze.el    I can't really imagine anybody uses this
nnlistserv.el  This, neither
nnslashdot.el  Does this even work?  nnrss/Gwene is an alternative
nnsoup.el      Way old code
nnultimate.el  I can't imagine this works still
nnwarchive.el  Very little updating since 1999
nnwfm.el       Ditto

So I'm going to delete these eight backends (and some of them have
gnus-*.el files corresponding to them, like gnus-soup.el), unless
anybody objects.  Speak up now etc.

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