Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

1996-09-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Rob Browning: > Why in the world wouldn't you want to require 4 digits for the date? Because of all the usual bad reasons, and one good one: it doesn't matter. The LSM dates are always past tense, and making the new requirement is trivial, all of thirty seconds of coding. Converting all old date

Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

1996-09-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
This is really off-topic, but it's one of my pet peeves. Sorry. Rob Browning: > 5) Debian should use either the big or little endian format and always > use four digits for the year. That way we won't have trouble when the > millenium hits, and you can always tell by looking if it's big or > litt

Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

1996-09-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > [1] Yes, I know it was probably deliberate, but American middle-endian > date-formats are stupid and confusing and I want them stamped out. > You have better things to do than to stamp about for the rest of your life. Also, you will never get anyone's att

Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

1996-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Mark W. Eichin writes ("Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade"): > Did you upgrade from 19.29-3 to 19.31-2 as indicated in your message, > or to 19.34-2, which is current? 19.34-2 hasn't reached my local mirror yet. Isn't it stil

Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

1996-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: emacs Version: 19.31-2 I just upgraded from 19.29-3, and it left me with the following /etc/site-start.el: (load "/usr/lib/emacs/19.29/lisp/jka-compr.elc") (if (file-exists-p "/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/w3-init.el") (load "w3-init")) (autoload 'lout-mode "lout-mode" "Mode for editing Lou