Re: emacs->gnus merge questions

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

On Sat, Dec 08 2007, Miles Bader wrote:

> I'm doing the back-merge from the Emacs trunk to the Gnus trunk.
>
> There are some changes which may or may not be appropriate for Gnus:
>
> (1) deleted:  encrypt.el

I'm not sure about this one.  Ted?

> (2) deleted:  assistant.el

Please don't delete assistant.el.  I hope that someone will continue
developing it.  (In Emacs, *.ast need to be removed as well.)

> (3) rename:   password.el => password-cache.el

Yes, please do.  Could you also sync the relevant changes from Emacs?

E.g. use...
(or (require 'password-cache nil t)
    (require 'password))

> I'm inclined to include all these changes (the fewer differences between
> Gnus and Gnus-in-Emacs, the better); does anyone have a comment?
>
> In addition, uses of `declare-function' have been added to various
> files.  I assume a Gnus maintainer will want to replace this with a
> gnus-specific macro for backwards compatibility.

Yes, there is a discussion about this:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/84386/focus=65888>

I hope Richard won't object to keep the files the same in both CVSes
(e.g. imap.el) even if we add compatibility code like...

(eval-and-compile
  (unless (fboundp 'declare-function) (defmacro declare-function (&rest r))))

BTW, sometimes it would be nice to know which changes have already be
synced from/to Emacs CVS and or compare.

What do you think about adding tags to Gnus CVS:

merge_to_emacs_trunk
merge_from_emacs_trunk
merge_to_emacs_22
merge_from_emacs_22

After you have done the merge, (re)tag the repositories.

Bye, Reiner.
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