Re: Sending attachments

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:19:07 +0800 Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote: 

JR> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Anyway, the question is if merging Gnus code into Emacs would result
>> in a purge of XEmacs compatibility code.
JR> To clarify, the question is about merging SOME Gnus code into Emacs. I
JR> would see it working the same way as the code that has been merged
JR> from Gnus already, where the Gnus folk continue to offer their own
JR> packages for XEmacs and older versions of Emacs that include the files
JR> that were merged into Emacs plus any compatibility code that has been
JR> modularized and doesn't need to be in the Emacs repository.

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:27:46 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> Pulling code out of Gnus has the downside that it then needs to be
>> inside Emacs, but XEmacs may not have it.

SM> Don't worry about this part: the changes (supposedly) needed don't
SM> intend to remove any code, just better modularize it (e.g. so that
SM> message-mode can be self-standing without importing (transitively)
SM> gnus-*.el packages).

As long as we're talking about changes local to the Gnus project (not
pulling things out to Emacs itself) I think this is reasonable.  If,
however, we plan to pull libraries out to Emacs, as I think some of the
comments are suggesting, we need to ensure it will not break XEmacs
compatibility.  Thanks for the clarification.

Ted