Re: XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>> ?\« is ok for XEmacs 21.4 if it loads the Mule-UCS package that
>> provides the utf-8 coding system.

> But wouldn't just "171" work as well? Then we don't have to worry about
> Mule-UCS etc.
> I am probably putting my ignorance on display here... :-)

Oh, sorry.  I did misread the gnus-spec.el code as it does:

(eq delim 171)

By this way XEmacs doesn't recognize these operands are equal:

(eq (aref "«" 0) 171) -> nil
;; Whereas
(eq (aref "«" 0) ?\«) -> t

However, the op is `=', not `eq'.  (= (aref "«" 0) 171) returns t
in XEmacs 21.4/21.5, I verified.  Could you commit 171?

>> BTW, isn't it possible for Gnus to drop the XEmacs 21.4 support?

> I don't know - I was just checking to see if I could make the buildbot
> go green. It feels like a waste to have a buildbot if red builds are
> ignored for longer periods of time.

> I guess XEmacs 21.5 won't be released this decade either... O:-)

Ah, that is the point.  I forgot there's no stable XEmacs 21.5.
But please let me say, the fact is that some new Gnus features
no longer work on XEmacs (even if the code is compiled with no
error).  Typical ones are the features that use url.el.  As for
XEmacs 21.4, I feel it like old GNU Emacsen that Gnus dropped
the support long ago.  I used to have fun to make Gnus of the
bleeding edge work for XEmacs, but I gave it up someday.