New Emacs facilities from Gnus (was: Gnus in Emacs is updated to No Gnus 0.7)

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

On Sun, Oct 28 2007, Miles Bader wrote:

>   2) It includes "password.el" (in lisp/gnus), which I seemed to
>      remember was not liked in previous emacs-devel discussion.  However
>      that's a small enough file that I suppose it can be easily replaced
>      if necessary.

There are some other non-Gnus specific files which should probably be
moved from lisp/gnus/ to other directories. [1]

I'll provide a list of new files with some comments.  If you need to
know more about these files, I'd suggest to make a _separate_ reply
and cc the author or maintainer.

* assistant.el:

;;; assistant.el --- guiding users through Emacs setup
;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>

Its purpose is to provide a setup assistant ("setup wizard" in some
programs).  IIRC, this is not finished yet.

See etc/gnus/*.ast for some prototype assistant files.

* dns-mode.el: Already in Emacs 22 as textmodes/dns-mode.el.

* ecomplete.el:

;;; ecomplete.el --- electric completion of addresses and the like
;; Author: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi

* encrypt.el:

;;; encrypt.el --- file encryption routines
;; Author: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>

* gnus-bookmark.el: Gnus specific.

* hashcash.el:

;;; hashcash.el --- Add hashcash payments to email
;; Maintainer: Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz>

* hmac-def.el: From FLIM (Faithful Library about Internet Message).
  Used for sasl-*.el.
* hmac-md5.el: Ditto.
* md4.el: Ditto.
* ntlm.el: Ditto.

hmac-def.el:;; Author: Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei@aqua.ocn.ne.jp>
hmac-md5.el:;; Author: Shuhei KOBAYASHI <shuhei@aqua.ocn.ne.jp>
md4.el:;; Author: Taro Kawagishi <tarok@transpulse.org>
ntlm.el:;; Author: Taro Kawagishi <tarok@transpulse.org>

* password.el:

;;; password.el --- Read passwords from user, possibly using a password cache.
;; Author: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>

,----[ doc/misc/gnus-news.el ]
| @item Gnus includes a password cache mechanism in password.el.
| 
| It is enabled by default (see @code{password-cache}), with a short
| timeout of 16 seconds (see @code{password-cache-expiry}).  If
| @acronym{PGG} is used as the @acronym{PGP} back end, the @acronym{PGP}
| passphrase is managed by this mechanism.  Passwords for ManageSieve
| connections are managed by this mechanism, after querying the user
| about whether to do so.
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* sasl.el: Simple Authentication and Security Layer.  From FLIM [1].
* sasl-cram.el:
* sasl-digest.el:
* sasl-ntlm.el:

sasl-cram.el:;; Author: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
sasl-digest.el:;; Author: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
sasl.el:;; Author: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
sasl-ntlm.el:;; Author: Taro Kawagishi <tarok@transpulse.org>

,----[ doc/misc/gnus-news.el ]
| @item Gnus includes the Emacs Lisp @acronym{SASL} library.
| 
| This provides a clean @acronym{API} to @acronym{SASL} mechanisms from
| within Emacs.  The user visible aspects of this, compared to the earlier
| situation, include support for @acronym{DIGEST}-@acronym{MD5} and
| @acronym{NTLM}.   @xref{Top, ,Emacs SASL, sasl, Emacs SASL}.
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* smime-ldap.el:

;;; smime-ldap.el --- client interface to LDAP for Emacs
;; Author: Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>

* spam-wash.el: Gnus specific.

Bye, Reiner.

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,----[ <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/80123/focus=81191> ]
| From: Richard Stallman
| Subject: Re: mailcap viewers in dired; gnus-dired.el, mailcap.el
| To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
| Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
| Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:40:48 -0400
| Message-ID: <E1IikbI-000076-Rp@fencepost.gnu.org>
| 
|     [...] When a new, general facility has been developed because
|     Gnus needed it, it would be counter-productive to not distribute
|     it with Gnus just because it's not Gnus-specific.
| 
| I don't mind if you distribute it with Gnus.  The point is to install it
| into Emacs.
| 
|     But when merging, the general stuff should not end up in the Gnus
|     directory, though.
| 
| If that means thinking of these added files as Emacs facilities rather
| than as part of Gnus, that would do the job.
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