From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42301 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mailing lists and news archiving Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:27:38 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87lmfc8qem.fsf@lackawana.kippona.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177559 10614 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:19:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9315 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 17:29:44 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 17:29:44 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16SLlc-0003CD-00; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:28:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:28:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA23527 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:28:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9268 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2002 17:28:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9263 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 17:28:11 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2002 17:28:11 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g0KHRib15976 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:27:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id SAA12693; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:27:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 19A583B2AA; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:27:39 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:01:02 +0100") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42301 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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 -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)