Re: The contrib directory? (was: Error in latest Oort build.)

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Hi,

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>> ucs-tables.el is for Emacs only.  How did you get it to byte compile
>>> files in the contrib/ directory?  The makefile from the distribution
>>> shouldn't do that.
>
> This makes me wonder about the "contrib" directory.  In general, should
> we always ignore everything inside of it?  There seems to be some useful
> stuff in there: gpg*.el, xml.el, ssl.el, etc.
>
> Assuming we want to use any of these packages, what is the preferred
> method for building them, and what's the recommended place where they
> should get installed?

There are a couple of different reasons for files in contrib:

  * provide functionality available in Emacs 21.x to older versions
  * provide code that provide Gnus functionality, but is not assigned
    to the FSF.

You'll have to examine each file, and see what you need to install.

- Hari
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