Including nnir.el (was: [Patch] allowing nnir.el + swish-e to search gziped mails)

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

On Thu, Jun 01 2006, Sascha Wilde wrote:

> btw. nnir.el isn't part of Emacs yet, which IMO is a pity.

Would you like to work on the integration?

What needs to be done is basically:

- Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> and Christoph Conrad
  <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> both have papers on file for Emacs.
  Contact them and ask if there are any changes by other people in
  nnir.el which are not documented in contrib/ChangeLog (i.e. before
  nnir.el was added to contrib/).  If there are such changes, check if
  these are tiny changes (upto 10-15 lines) or if the author has
  papers on file or is willing to sign.

  The thread [1] is the most recent statement on this, IIRC.

- Fix the copyright statements in the file accordingly.  Currently the
  copyright statements are spread all over the file.  I don't think
  this is correct.  And at least the years 2004-2006 need to be added.

- Find out which search engines are Free Software (cf. www.gnu.org).
  Remove glimpse and other non-free search engines.  See [2].

Anything else?

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58422/focus=58962 ]
| From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
| Subject: Re: nnir.el?
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
| Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:54:14 +0200
| Message-ID: <86lldxp349.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net>
| 
| [...]
| 
| I once thought that there were other changes, but it turned out that
| Christoph was so productive that I thought he was three people ;-)
| 
| Since Christoph and me both have the paperwork, it would be possible
| to incorporate nnir.el into the mainstream.
| 
| However, I confess that I'm not that happy with nnir.el.  The
| infrastructure sucks, especially regarding all the parameters that you
| have to set up.  gnus-namazu.el manages to do things without any
| configuration.
| 
| [...]
| 
| That said, I don't want to denigrate people of something they find
| useful.
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[2]
,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/21753.1067306464%40newt.com ]
| From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
| Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug
| Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
| Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:01:04 -0800
| Message-ID: <21753.1067306464@newt.com>
| Original-To: rms@gnu.org
| 
| Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
| 
| >     I am a huge fan of mail indexing programs like: swish++, mairix,
| >     glimpse, namazu etc.
| >
| > I seem to recall that glimpse is or was non-free.  I don't know about
| > the others.  Can you check which of these are non-free?  We don't
| > want Gnus or MH-E to refer to them.
| 
| Glimpse support was dropped from CVS MH-E today.
| 
| A poll of MH-E users revealed one glimpse user who was going to switch
| to another indexer anyway, and another who was happy to switch, so there
| wasn't much pain involved. I use swish++ myself.
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