Re: Changes committed gnus/contrib (ChangeLog compface.el)

[Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Is there any reason you don't want to use the version of compface.el
> which still exists in the lisp directory?

Yes, I don't have the necessary tools installed, and I don't want to
install them: I find the Elisp-based solution much more elegant and it
reduces the number of external tools Emacs depends on in my setup.
Besides, my system is fast enough to do this in Elisp.

> You don't happen to include the contrib directory in load-path, do
> you?  I don't think that's a good idea.  Instead, you can move
> required modules from the contrib directory to the lisp directory
> before performing `configure; make install'.

In fact I do, it makes it easier to track changes in those files: if I
move them elsewhere I'd have to check that my version and the version in
contrib are the same each time I update Gnus.  And I don't do `make
install' at all, I just add the lisp directory to my load-path.

I will modify the Makefile to byte-compile files in contrib in my local
version, then.

> The best way will be to rewrite the ELisp-based uncompface program by
> someone who can assign or has been assigned the right.

That sounds like a waste of time.  :-(  Let's hope the original author
will reply soon.

Thanks for your reply,

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