Re: Problems with `require' in recent changes

[Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>]

>>>>> Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> wrote:

> With the renaming from password.el to password-cache.el, smime.el, sieve-manage.el and mml-sec.el have a sexp like this:

> (or (require 'password-cache nil t)
>     (require 'password))

> This breaks XEmacs 21.4.20 with an error that require does not like
> having three arguments.

The third argument `noerror' is acceptable to only XEmacs 21.5.

> Since I don't understand what the above call to require is supposed to
> do, I cannot produce a proper patch.  For the time being, I've brute
> forced a fix by commenting out the above sexp and replacing it with
> (require 'password-cache) which is fine for my single user
> installation and allows me to do my work today, assuming the issue
> remains in 21.4.21 which I have at work.  If I find that it works
> there I'll upgrade at home and be done with it, but I wanted to get
> the word out early in case it doesn't as I don't have access to my
> personal email while at work.

> Thanks,

> --
> Dave Goldberg
> david.goldberg6@verizon.net

I don't know what (require 'password) is for, too.  And I believe
that no XEmacs user will have difficulty even if changing it into:

(require 'password-cache)

Regards,