From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/70062 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Doing some... maintenance Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:01 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87eidgqljs.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283185526 15665 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 16:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:25:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18448@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 30 18:25:24 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7Ai-00059V-0t for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7Ae-0006QU-MP; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7Ad-0006QF-D4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7AX-0004Ee-VB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Oq7AX-0006ab-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7AX-000534-1p for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:13 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 63 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAElBMVEWUj5gCAgSzrbVXVV4b Gx+Df4igaHiuAAACTklEQVQ4jW3TS5LjIAwGYBUOB6DM7ClS3scj2IdC2RNj3f8q82On0+mpZpXw WeiBTe5Y4rzzmTtzU2u5hU4nOC/l3olUAdQpvsGJbzZQs6pKSlE/IIdGjSDW2kgH+OK8r7oQtWYJ i6M5AbmlZhoQYlweHNsBM4tIbeMcEwFzZaF1RHQINwqAQJZ9TYVkgDJL1jwyo5XkhStVcUUY/xh1 TgOqFIdwEY/zK3NlNIeFZ6RopFLECZeELPU2IPfkSwZgg1VkHoWNmKYsJQeUWwBJfJG9ouvWNKUR gQcl2wsyVWsxwZElFaZxlM90WWu9YbhjvtoPQIBXAGdMyVpCjs4rwEkSQMGoDIUxQe15wKhp573M R0Qb0nWtSr5mfQoAMwzHPtKswiQ4/Ol39wAYY1/gKo2JpLy7uRl6LQuYURXXpBfnxzE4C6O0ZwR3 dHYV2cYdxaC4K+qAyrba6eLcYwso13bOqsk9ELHULVxWtD8Com23RsnfDzAI8R2vQSBANjHxDQ1e ATYfEE1UgNmPzq81LkvFiHFQiNcbmy2dMNPU3bhmiiEQ4/LPiKVOfXKYejAjexhQLfl5qhNP7ijq WB3gp6Nzu0+Cl9acsDTdXScvfV54yTG89vGDLm7C2Nl31B0w2Bfh1sfYpQtesQ0QXiHM6wzwVjDT LehXACLWOZHz1mnvf+N7Py559S/Y6RMsr3/2L9jiuw9AeTzxig5onzDV9b5+w/dKvObyG6BcPSHv Lf4E636BgG9qGqD/wYLP7g3bT3jsA7pLu/mAK/Pt6f4BPO+9GNvCnP0AAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Akira Rabelais's _Caduceus_: "surface of soft steps, violets whisper" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3s/9VaEghZrFyvrBspnqaofC+BM= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:70062 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov 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. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen