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27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs

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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: 36903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36903: 27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 06:37:53 +0800

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I can do that for in-tree code, and my own packages, but who knows what
>> else is out there that might try something similar.
>
> Well, we can't control out-of-tree code, but Gnus should (in general) be
> able to generate a summary buffer without Gnus having been started -- I
> mean, that's a design goal.

Okay, I'll make that change in gnus-registry.el, and elsewhere. I'll
keep that design goal in mind, though I wouldn't be surprised if we run
into more weirdness in this situation where the user's gnus.el has been
loaded, but then Gnus itself shut down.

>> But it's probably a better solution than anything else I can think of.
>> I'd be inclined to just have them return an empty string. Another
>> possibility would be to have the formatting code wrap the user-function
>> funcall in `ignore-errors' and return an empty string there.
>
> That doesn't sound very friendly when trying to debug errors...

No, you're right, I was just throwing out ideas.

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