Re: select-message-coding-system

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 14 2006, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Ok, it seems adding s???mail.el to contrib/ didn't work well with
>> XEmacs.  Should have remembered that, I modify it in some ways each
>> time I import it into XEmacs...
>>
>> Hm.  Either XEmacs users has to make sure they put Gnus contrib/ after
>> mail-lib in load-path, or we'll somehow have to revert the
>> contrib/s???mail.el files.
>
> No, please don't fix what ain't broken.  contrib/ should *not* be in
> `load-path':
>
> ,----[ contrib/README ]
> | Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to
> | load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of
> | more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete
> | libraries with all kinds of ill effects.
> | 
> | The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you
> | need to a directory which is in load-path.
> `----

Right, problem solved, let's keep the files.