From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37424 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: Backend writing Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 21:24:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172842 13817 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:00:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 24540 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 19:25:26 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 19:25:26 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id VAA21851 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:24:59 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id VAA07435; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:24:58 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id VAA07847; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:24:58 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Sean Rima's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2001 19:04:07 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 17 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37424 On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Sean Rima wrote: > What I seek is a detailed FAQ on writing backends. Anyone know where > I could get one, part from the info files. I think everybody who has written a backend has just read the relevant section from the info file (`Backend Interface' and its children). And then they've played it by ear. If you have a specific question, you can look in other backends which are similar w.r.t. that specific question. Or ask here. kai -- ~/.signature: No such file or directory