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-Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the
license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
-License'' in the Emacs manual.
+License'' in the Gnus manual.
-(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have freedom to copy and modify
-this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free
-Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.''
+(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and
+modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
+developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
Documentation License. If you want to distribute this document
@c As of 2005-10-21...
There are no Gnus dependencies in this file.
+@item hex-util.el
+Functions to encode/decode hexadecimal string.
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@end table
@subsection Encryption and security
@c As of 2005-10-21...
There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
+@item sha1.el
+SHA1 Secure Hash Algorithm.
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@end table
@subsection Networking
There are no serious Gnus dependencies in this file. Uses
@code{gnus-run-mode-hooks} (a wrapper function).
-@item dns*.el
+@item dns.el, dns-mode.el
Domain Name Service lookups.
@c As of 2005-10-21...
There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@item rfc2045.el
Functions for decoding rfc2045 headers
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@item rfc2047.el
Functions for encoding and decoding rfc2047 messages
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
+@c
+Only a couple of tests for gnusy symbols.
@item rfc2104.el
RFC2104 Hashed Message Authentication Codes
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@item rfc2231.el
Functions for decoding rfc2231 headers
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
@item flow-fill.el
Interpret RFC2646 "flowed" text.
@c As of 2005-12-06...
There are no Gnus dependencies in this file.
@c ... but the custom group is gnus-extract.
+
+@item canlock.el
+Functions for Cancel-Lock feature
+@c Cf. draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt
+@c Although this draft has expired, Canlock-Lock revived in 2007 when
+@c major news providers (e.g. news.individual.org) started to use it.
+@c As of 2007-08-25...
+There are no Gnus dependencies in these files.
+
@end table
@subsection message
All message composition from Gnus (both mail and news) takes place in
Message mode buffers. Message mode is intended to be a replacement for
Emacs mail mode. There should be no Gnus dependencies in
-@file{message.el}.
+@file{message.el}. Alas it is not anymore. Patches and suggestions to
+remove the dependencies are welcome.
+
+@c message.el requires nnheader which requires gnus-util.
@subsection Emacs @acronym{MIME}
functionality for Emacs.
@acronym{MML} (@acronym{MIME} Meta Language) is supposed to be
-independent from Gnus. Alas it is not anymore.
-
+independent from Gnus. Alas it is not anymore. Patches and suggestions
+to remove the dependencies are welcome.
@subsection Gnus backends
ends (probably @file{nnml.el}, @file{nnfolder.el} and
@file{nnmaildir.el} are the most widely used mail back ends).
-
-
@c mm-uu requires nnheader which requires gnus-util. message.el also
@c requires nnheader.
-@c message / gnus
-@c
-@c nn*
-@c
-@c mm*
-@c
-@c rfc*
-@c
-@c pgg*
-@c tla netrc pop3 dig dns ...
-@c format-spec.el
-
@section Compatibility
-No Gnus should work on:
+No Gnus and Gnus 5.10.10 and up should work on:
@itemize @bullet
@item
Emacs 21.1 and up.
XEmacs 21.4 and up.
@end itemize
-Gnus 5.10 should work on:
+Gnus 5.10.8 and below should work on:
@itemize @bullet
@item
Emacs 20.7 and up.
feature period of several months. After the release of Gnus 5.10.6 the
development of new features started again on the trunk while the 5.10
series is continued on the stable branch (v5-10) from which more stable
-releases will be done when needed (5.10.7, @dots{}).
+releases will be done when needed (5.10.8, @dots{}).
@ref{Gnus Development, ,Gnus Development, gnus, The Gnus Newsreader}
Stable releases of Gnus finally become part of Emacs. E.g. Gnus 5.8
@heading Conventions for version information in defcustoms
For new customizable variables introduced in Oort Gnus (including the
-v5-10 branch) use @code{:version "22.1" ;; Oort Gnus} including the
-comment.
+v5-10 branch) use @code{:version "22.1" ;; Oort Gnus} (including the
+comment) or e.g. @code{:version "22.2" ;; Gnus 5.10.10} if the feature
+was added for Emacs 22.2 and Gnus 5.10.10.
@c
-If the variable is new in No Gnus use @code{:version "23.0" ;; No Gnus}.
+If the variable is new in No Gnus use @code{:version "23.1" ;; No Gnus}.
+
+The same applies for customizable variables when its default value was
+changed.
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