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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: gnus versions
- In-Reply-To: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:14:17 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:24:59 GMT
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- kpc> == k p c <kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov>
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- kpc> in hopes of clearing things up...
-
- kpc> this is my understanding of what versions are available and the status
- kpc> of each. please make corrections if you know any. i've sent this to
- kpc> masanobu umeda already.
- [...]
- kpc> gnus2 v0.33 alpha? scott ballantyne
-
- kpc> only available to hackers. requires nov and other c code.
- kpc> author says it's much faster than 3.14.1. works with news
- kpc> overview database. comes with a disclaimer that says that
- kpc> it's deliberately not made "plug and go". i wasn't able to
- kpc> get it to work in a reasonable amount of time but some people
- kpc> apparently use it. (including eff people?). [...]
-
- I haven't had time to try it yet. Other things have taken priority. (I
- haven't installed the nov database yet anyway, so GNUS2 wouldn't do much
- good to me, would it?)
-
- kpc> eff available at eff ???
-
- kpc> 3.14.1 with joe wells' hacks and most of the packages written
- kpc> for 3.14.1. works. basically a replacement for 3.14.1 and
- kpc> some of the contributed hacks many people have collected.
-
- This is just a marginal cleanup & minor bug fix deal, bundled with some of
- the better (IMHO) add-ons (including a properly-working version of
- gnus-user-tale.el). I "maintain" it as much as anyone can be said
- to; basically I just figured I'd leverage the work I did on the local
- installation so people elsewhere could take advantage of it.
-
- It's not likely to get any more work (in particular, I'm not likely to
- update it to be in sync with 3.14.3 or gnus2) but is not a bad place to
- start from if you're installing a "production" GNUS system today. The
- add-ons and patches are not documented but a good diff -cr against the
- "regular" 3.14.1 release might be illuminating :)
-
- It's ftpable as ftp.eff.org:/users/ckd/gnus3.14.1.eff.01.tar.Z.
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