From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4948 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: September Gnus 0.31 is released Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:13:44 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.41) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145622 31323 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA12554 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 16:48:37 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 01:16:43 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA12271; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 16:13:46 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 27 Jan 1996 12:33:02 -0800 Original-Lines: 37 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.32/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4948 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4948 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> Steven L Baur writes: Lars> Or you can rename "etc-0.4" to "etc" and put it in the "sgnus" Lars> directory. Gnus searches the load path, strips off trailing "lisp" Lars> elements from the paths and sees whether it can find the "etc/gnus" Lars> directory. >> >> I assume you mean: >> $ cd /usr/local/lib/xemacs/sgnus-0.32 >> $ ls -l >> -rw-r--r-- 1 steve devel 161 Jan 26 08:11 Makefile >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 steve devel 12 Jan 26 08:10 RCS -> ../sgnus/RCS/ >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 steve devel 10 Jan 26 09:30 etc -> ../etc-0.4/ Lars> Oh, I though everybody just renamed the "sgnus-0.x" directory to Lars> "sgnus" and did the same with the "etc-0.x" directory... but I guess Lars> that means moving the "etc" dir into the new "sgnus" dir for each Lars> release, which must be a pain. Of course, one could just write a tiny Lars> script to do that automatically to rename-old/unpack/rename/move etc... Generally speaking, with a development mail system it is not a wise idea to trash an older working version in favor of the next set of patches. I like new (version dependent) directory names, since by default, the previous version's .elc files won't be touched. The biggest inconvenience has been the change of certain functions to macros. It would be nice(r) not to have to rebytecompile dependent packages like TM and Mailcrypt with each gnus change. Gnus development updates come out on average around 2 per week (18 versions, 63 days, since sgnus v0.14 on 26 November), so this is a reasonably important topic. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.