Re: Gnus v5.8.7 is released

[Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net> writes:
> 
> > can someone explain to me the difference between GNUS (the old one
> > ?), Gnus (the newer one ?) and the one w/ Xemacs ? as I undertood in
> > the web pages, GNUS is dead, God saves Gnus :) but what about the
> > Xemacs version ?
> 
> Well, GNUS is _very_ old.  It latest version is 4.1 or 4.3 or so.  And
> then, Lars wrote (ding) Gnus which became Gnus 5.0.  There were
> various versions of Gnus 5.x, and as far as I know, the most recent
> versions of Emacs and XEmacs come with Gnus 5.7, whereas the most
> recent version of Gnus is 5.8.  (Maybe XEmacs comes with Gnus 5.6,
> which is more or less the same as 5.7.)

well, I'll contact the XEmacs team about the integration of Gnus 5.8
to XEmacs.

I forgot to ask about pgnus ?

> > well. I'm running XEmacs 21.1 w/ Mule under a FreeBSD box. until the
> > last week, I was running GNUS (Gnus?) featured w/ XEmacs which is
> > version 1.45 from the XEmacs point of view. I upgrade this week end
> > w/ some problem. one of them was that I've apel/flim/semi installed
> > which imply a conflict about the mailcap.el library. XEmacs found
> > the flim one before the gnus one.
> 
> Semi is for dealing with MIME.  As Gnus 5.8 also deals with MIME,
> these two step on each other's toes.  If you want to use Gnus 5.8, you
> must disable Semi and TM and all other packages like it.

for instance, just renaming one of mailcap.el file resolve a major
conflict. as I understood, flim/semi are an evolution of tm, no ?

> (I think it is possible to still use Semi for RMAIL, say, but you must
> disable it for Gnus.)

thanks.

Cyrille.
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