Gnus development mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: loading spam.el and gnus-registry.el with set variables only
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:42:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nbrsqzd41.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ny8vwnb04.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:44:27 -0400")

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote:

> Speaking for those two packages, it has been the #1 problem that
> people have to set a variable (gnus-registry-install or
> spam-install-hooks) and then do a require of the .el file.  How
> could I make it so setting any of the two variables above will load
> its appropriate package when Gnus is loaded?  I can just put code
> into gnus.el, but I thought maybe there was a "right" way of loading
> packages like that.

Anyone?  If this is not yet standardized in Gnus, I'll go ahead and
put some code in gnus.el that will look in a table of symbols and if
the symbol is set, will load the corresponding library.  I just want
to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.

Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-09 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07 18:44 Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-09 14:42 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-10-09 16:24   ` Reiner Steib
2003-10-09 18:00     ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-09 19:37       ` Reíner Steib
2003-10-09 19:51         ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-10-10 16:05           ` Ted Zlatanov

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4nbrsqzd41.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu \
    --to=tzz@lifelogs.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).