On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:57:10 -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Why can't the flavour and its version be detected from the
>> >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d file, and things loaded (or not)
>> >> accordingly?
>>
>> > That's what I do anyway.
>>
>> This puts code that needs be run on every emacsen startup, even
>> ones that are not supported. I fail to see the benefit.
> Except that you are currently supporting all Emacs flavours in
> woody, sarge and sid anyway.
Erm, yes. The point was that people have objected in the past
to the long start up time of emacsen, and it was decided then that
package startup files do as little as possible -- perhaps only set
variables. Therefore, I prefer not to have a switch statement in the
init file.
The bigger problem is this: files are not byte compiled unless
I say so in the emacsen install files; so just putting in the /etc/
init files is not helping anything.
Indeed, this is a stronger reason -- the init file is only
present now for flavours of emacs for which the byte compiled files
are also present.
>> > So you used this structure because gnus didn't work on emacs19?
>>
>> Well, the actual incident that prompted tis mechanism is now lost
>> in the mists of time (I am not even sure that it was Gnus and not
>> VM). But as long as I am responsible for bug reports on the
>> packages, I would much rather have a modicum of control over what I
>> am signing up to support.
> Sure. I personally wouldn't file a bug report against a package
> that didn't work correctly using my hand-packaged CVS Emacs. But I
People do.
> would be happier to have elisp packages _not_ skip it altogether.
> If it breaks I get to keep both pieces. :-)
cp /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/*gnus-init.el /etc/emacscvs/site-start.d/
However, this is not going to help with the byte compilation
code; since /usr/share/emacs21/site=lisp/gnus files are not going to
migrate themselves over.
manoj
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