Re: The current state of gnus-cloud

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

I'm trying to use gnus-cloud on emacs 29 on a new windows laptop.

First hurdle:
gnus-cloud sync fails because it can't overwrite ~ backup files.

I cloned the emacs git repository, made a branch off the emacs-29 branch
and cherry picked my fix from a similar emacs 28 branch (made in june
2023)
 https://github.com/steinarb/emacs-gnus-cloud-sb/commit/e48bb24270f93e40192b18dcead2f95190e1b1a4

Then byte compiled the gnus and restarted emacs (I have
~/git/emacs/lisp/gnus in the load-path).

The new branch is here: https://github.com/steinarb/emacs-gnus-cloud-sb/tree/emacs-29-with-gnus-cloud-mods

Second hurdle: gnus sync fails because it can't handle files with ":" in
their names on Windows. Stack trace here:
 https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8806d9ac18f00a4504eb00ece117c0bf

I have the following setting in ~/.emacs:
 (setq gnus-cloud-synced-files '((:directory "~/News" :match ".*.SCORE\\'"))

I have tried to make it more restrictive to exclude file names
containing ":" but I get the same error:
 (setq gnus-cloud-synced-files '((:directory "~/News" :match "[^:]*\\.SCORE\\'"))

Ideas?

Thanks!


- Steinar