Re: Problems w/ rgnus-0.49 and tm-7.89 (was Re: Feedback on new Customization)

[Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>]

Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

> A bit of snooping told me this:  I use tm-7.89, which includes
> `gnus-mime.el'.  gnus-mime checks if `gnus-load' has been loaded (as a
> test for Red Gnus), and if it is absent, it "helpfully" provides the
> features gnus-sum and gnus-art, thus preventing the loading of the
> actual files later.  And rgnus-0.49 does away with `gnus-load'.

<GRIPE>
I think it is a tm problem. It really tries to support to many
versions of gnus. It should just hook itself in to the appropriate
hooks and that's it. I think the relevant hooks have been there and
remained the same for quite some time now,

The sametyhing is true for the installation procedure. It is a pain in
the ass because it dissables loading of all system init files thereby
throwing away information about installed software and then
wants the paths to all relevant reading software to figure out what
versions to have.

<\GRIPE>

Jan

P.S. The last version tm version I have is from june where I just
didn't give it any information about gnus and did the hooking myself.
I am perfectly happy with it now. tm is a great piece of software, it
is really is a pittyit tries to be too smart.