Re: contrib/ucs-tables.el obsolete for Emacs 21.3

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 08 May 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> 
>> Emacs 21.3 (and Emacs' CVS HEAD) comes with `ucs-tables.el'.  It
>> might cause problems if a user adds `.../gnus/contrib' to
>> `load-path'.
>>
>> Therefore, I guess we should remove `contrib/ucs-tables.el'.
> 
> I don't think so: what about people using Gnus on older versions of
> Emacs?  ucs-tables.el was put there for older versions, after all.
> 
> Maybe the documented treatment of the contrib directory should be
> different.  I think it's too simplistic to just add it to load-path.
> Maybe we should tell people to take the files they need and copy
> them to site-lisp or something.

Maybe contrib/ucs-tables.el should throw an error if emacs-version is
21.3 or greater?  The user could set gnus-load-contrib-ucs-tables if
they really, really want to use contrib/ucs-tables.el.

Another option is to rename it to ucs-tables-compat.el and make sure
nothing in it conflicts with the new ucs-tables.el.

Ted