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