From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Subject: Re: gnus-xmas-format in ~/.newsrc.eld
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9wuhlgkc0.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluist5xpp7.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
On Wed, Apr 23 2003, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> When a user wants to switch back to Gnus 5.8.8 (e.g. to see if some
>> bug has been introduced in Oort), displaying articles fails, because
>> `gnus-xmas-format' isn't bound.
>
> Downgrading does not work well, so maybe instead of adding workarounds
> for some of the problems,
Yes, it's a workaround. But why should we make downgrading harder
than is necessary?
> we should add a version check in .newsrc.eld explaining that the
> user is on their own?
This would make sense.
> One thing that will break after downgrade + upgrade are flags. Any
> flag changes made using the old gnus version will be lost.
Are you talking about the marks files (nnml, nnfolder, ...?)? It
worked for me in nndoc and nntp groups. I didn't try other back ends.
> Given the changes to agent/cache/etc, I think there are more
> problems.
Is there an entry in GNUS-NEWS for this? (I couldn't find any.)
Bye, Reiner.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 13:17 Reiner Steib
2003-04-23 14:18 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-04-23 18:06 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2003-04-23 20:10 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-04-23 21:05 ` Reiner Steib
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