Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
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 d

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right. I created a flavour emacscvs and ran: > > > /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install emacscvs > > > Investigating, I see it didn't work because you assume to know all > > flavours in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gnus. It's a > > v

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:25:50 -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:23:18 -0500, Peter S Galbraith >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > >> >> Since using e.g. /etc/

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:28:52 +0100, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Umm, why would they be incompatible? When there is an emacs22, it >> shall have a flavour of emacs22, and the gnus install shall, if the >> compilation succeeded, create a

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:23:18 -0500, Peter S Galbraith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> Since using e.g. /etc/emacs21/ instead of /etc/emacs/ makes these > >> packages incompatible with future versi

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-03 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:23:18 -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >> Since using e.g. /etc/emacs21/ instead of /etc/emacs/ makes these >> packages incompatible with future versions of Emacs, they should >> really only be used when

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:23:18 -0500, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Since using e.g. /etc/emacs21/ instead of /etc/emacs/ makes these > packages incompatible with future versions of Emacs, they should > really only be used when the setup is very different between Emacs > flavours.

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I don't know why gnus doesn't use /etc/emacs since > the gnus-init startup files in /etc/xemacs21 and /etc/emacs21 are > the same files. I'm sure we'll find out soon. :-)

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Most of emacs modes detect emacs21 or xemacs21, so I doubt >> any mode will work with the emacs-snapshot flavour >> (emacs-snapshot provides emacs21 though). > > I'm not sure about _most_ modes. I'm running CVS Emacs now with the > Debian startup.

Re: News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Salut Jérôme ! > I managed to change the emacs packaging so that it is possible > to easily adapt it to any upcoming GNU Emacs flavour. > Full testing remains but most of the work has been completed. Thanks for doing this. > Now, I wonder how it

News from the emacs-snapshot packaging

2003-11-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I managed to change the emacs packaging so that it is possible to easily adapt it to any upcoming GNU Emacs flavour. Full testing remains but most of the work has been completed. Now, I wonder how it is possible to use the numerous emacs modes shipped by Debian with such a flavour. Most of