Re: Mailing lists and news archiving

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Is nnir ready for inclusion in Gnus, you think?

It seems that the functionality that's offered by nnir.el is stable
and works okay.  Maybe it's not enough functionality.  Things that
come to mind:

* nnir only supports one backend to search in, because it's got a
  global variable for the backend.  I wanted to add server parameters
  so that the nnir-specific things can be specified for each server,
  and nnir would search all servers which are nnir-enabled.  But I
  haven't got around to it :-(

* nnir is kinda restricted to one-file-per-message backends.  This is
  because nnir calls a search engine, and tries to glean group name
  and article number from that output.  And it is easy to tell the
  search engine to print the file name (wherefrom said data can
  easily be gleaned).  If you can convince the search engine to print
  the article number and group name for other backends, then they
  will work with nnir, too.

  For example, nnimap works with nnir, because IMAP has a built-in
  search command.

* nnir is kinda fragile because it parses the output of the
  command-line search tools.  So it's easy to confuse nnir by adding
  a slash at the end of a directory name, or by removing it.

So: after a day of hacking by Lars the Quick Typist, I'm sure it will
be in good shape :-)

kai
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