From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44580 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raja R Harinath Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The contrib directory? (was: Error in latest Oort build.) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 19:49:35 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020300695 28918 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 00:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 00:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1734op-0007WJ-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 02:51:35 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1734nI-00080M-00; Wed, 01 May 2002 19:50:00 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 01 May 2002 19:50:13 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA13146 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 19:50:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 28782 invoked by alias); 2 May 2002 00:49:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28777 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 00:49:40 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu (root@128.101.33.100) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 May 2002 00:49:40 -0000 Original-Received: from bose.cs.umn.edu (postfix@bose.cs.umn.edu [128.101.35.195]) by mail.cs.umn.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g420nbv20616; Wed, 1 May 2002 19:49:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by bose.cs.umn.edu (Postfix, from userid 818) id 9C5473229; Wed, 1 May 2002 19:49:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Lloyd Zusman In-Reply-To: (Lloyd Zusman's message of "Wed, 01 May 2002 15:48:56 -0400") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44580 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44580 Hi, Lloyd Zusman writes: > Lloyd Zusman writes: > >> Simon Josefsson 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 -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash