Re: nndraft lossage and byte-compilation

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

"David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I've run into various random problems with my drafts group; mostly,
> I've been completely unable to access it.  This is problematic because 
> I'm having other local configuration problems which result in my not
> being able to send mail in some cases; I'd rather be able to save the
> mail than lose it.  C-c C-d seems to work, but I can't access the
> draft group at all.  I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this both here and 
> on gnu.emacs.gnus in the past.
> 
> Today, on a whim, I decided to byte-compile my Gnus (couple-day-old
> Oort).  And now nndraft works.
> 
> The particular thing that prompted me to try this was 'C-h f
> nndraft-request-group'.  Now (with the byte-compiled Gnus) it's a
> normal function, but before it was defalias'd to 'ignore.  My guess is 
> that the (eval-when-compile (defalias ...)) is being evaluated when
> the uncompiled file is loaded, and nnoo-import is failing to override
> that alias with the appropriate nnmh function.  When the compiled file 
> is loaded, there's no alias, and so calling nnoo-import works.  (This
> all makes sense if defaliasing a symbol causes fboundp on it to return 
> t.)

Thank you for your report.  I've checked in a fix.

ShengHuo