Re: Gnus package

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sat, Apr 05 2008, Mike Kupfer wrote:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> Reiner> Are the patches you mention already integrated upstream in the
> Reiner> v5-10 branch?
>
> Ah, good question.  It doesn't look like this one is:
>
> 2007-03-05  Mike Kupfer  <mike.kupfer@xemacs.org>
>
> 	* lisp/gnus-spec.el (gnus-parse-simple-format): Add required 2nd
> 	  argument to (setq dontinsert), using the fix from the HEAD
> 	  branch at gnus.org. 

I suppose this is this patch?

2004-01-27  Jerry James  <james@xemacs.org>  (tiny change)

	* gnus-spec.el (gnus-parse-simple-format): Fix setq value
	omission.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- gnus-spec.el	5 Jan 2004 19:47:22 -0000	7.2
+++ gnus-spec.el	27 Jan 2004 05:55:53 -0000	7.3
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@
        (list (car flist)))
       ;; A single number.
       ((string= fstring "%d")
-       (setq dontinsert)
+       (setq dontinsert t)
        (if insert
 	   (list `(princ ,(car flist)))
 	 (list `(int-to-string ,(car flist)))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Hm, (setq dontinsert) is the same as (setq dontinsert nil) in Emacs.
OTOH, setting dontinsert to nil is a no-op here.

> I don't see this one, either.  I don't know if Aidan has approached
> someone on the Gnus team about it yet.

No.  In the form discussed in
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches/8878> it's not
suitable for inclusion since it would break on Emacs.

> I didn't look in CVS, but Katsumi Yamaoka said the third patch (or
> something equivalent) is in the v5-10 branch (see
> http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2008-March/001531.html).

I don't know how you solved the problem in XEmacs, but I'd suggest to
check if you can use Katsumi Yamaoka's approach instead of a different
one.

> Though I keep forgetting about that pesky issue of compatible GPL
> versions.  That could delay things. :-(

Didn't you (XEmacs) decide to switch to GPLv3 as well?  I seem to
recall Steven wrote something like this recently.

> Reiner> So the answer to your question [1] is "yes".
>
> Okay, great!  I guess this means I ought to get on the ding list.

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> http://gnus.org/distribution.html says I should mail Lars to get
> write access to CVS; is that still the right thing for me to do?

For getting write access, it's the right thing to write to Lars.  If
you just want to add a tag, it might not be worth the effort.  Someone
else (e.g. me) could do it on your request.  On a second thought, if
you only sync with upstream releases, we don't really need
xemacs-pkg-* tags because it would be the same as the v5-10-* release
tag.

Bye, Reiner.
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