From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with `require' in recent changes
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:09:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6hseyrd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4m8x401nf7.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:39:56 +0900")
>>> I don't know what (require 'password) is for, too.
>> Because I didn't know if password will get renamed in Gnus too, or if
>> Gnus needs to support systems where password-cache is still called
>> password.
> Now only password-cache.el exists in the Gnus trunk. However,
> password.el is still in ecrypto that is an official XEmacs Lisp
> package. So, it will override password-cache.el if some program
> requires the feature `password'. I'm not sure what it brings,
> but it seems that password-cache.el had better provide also the
> feature `password'. Though it might cause a trouble in programs
> that use password functions, I guess it is easy to be solved.
I really wish we had kept the name "password.el". Such name changes are
just a waste of time and energy.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 12:04 Dave Goldberg
2007-12-12 3:12 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-12 3:15 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-12 5:39 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-12 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-12 20:45 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-14 0:07 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-16 18:32 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-16 20:22 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-16 20:51 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-17 2:25 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-17 18:44 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-18 0:29 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-28 19:34 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-17 21:45 ` Dave Goldberg
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