From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64149 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Wrong use of "path" in spam.el Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:50:34 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167238365 19215 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 16:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12672@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 27 17:52:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gzc1D-0001oD-OC for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:52:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzc0u-0004vm-5e; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:52:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzc0s-0004vE-Eg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:52:22 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Gzc0m-0001to-9T for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:52:22 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gzc0l-0004cg-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:52:15 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gzc0g-00028e-RQ for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:52:10 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:52:10 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:52:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: .*T0'iU(sujq_j9\J>-d4fg;N/1++U#U$_5ii6k.=|"-n'?5O:Hyz&wi'-!I~,}7~GgT=0S /&-R5sbkNy5+Xo1y{Tw2KKxi@Xh"g@]Qc|.U<*]WDd)qvGowFDvfU1F]{EDho:7P0@|oOD=Bc{K4?> WP68K[Mx:}=`ZT'6g4'f+g?;`vri2!)xGy}3:=l'(/Cea0l4lo^H5#@/Z3ev Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MySyS0MVz7i+isJkY269kRJO9MA= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64149 Archived-At: On Wed, Dec 27 2006, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On 26 Dec 2006, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote: >> [...] `spam-*-path' variables and doc strings. We should rename >> those variables to `spam-*-program' and mark the former as obsolete. >> >> I'm not 100% sure that it's a good idea to do this now (while Emacs 22 >> is in pretest), but OTOH spam.el was not part of Emacs 21 so it's >> probably better to do it now so that Emacs 22 will have the right >> names. Opinions? > > I'm OK with that. Since the old variable names will work today, I > expect the support issues to be minimal. Maybe we should better use `defvaralias' instead of `make-obsolete-variable'? I wasn't sure which one is more suitable here. > But the manual will also have to be updated, AFAICS, it's only the following change (installed in v5-10): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- --- gnus.texi 26 Dec 2006 19:10:32 +0100 6.603.2.107 +++ gnus.texi 27 Dec 2006 17:38:39 +0100 @@ -23952,7 +23952,7 @@ the default value of @samp{spam}. @end defvar -@defvar spam-ifile-database-path +@defvar spam-ifile-database This is the filename for the ifile database. It is not specified by default, so ifile will use its own default database name. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > and we need to check with the Emacs maintainers regarding the 22 > prerelease. The changes will automatically be included in the next pretest after Miles next sync. Do you have something else in mind? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/