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From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: spam.el and missing functions
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 03:35:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wuostmvq.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oqwuos1o23.fsf@carouge.sram.qc.ca> (pinard@iro.umontreal.ca's message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 19:57:40 -0400")

pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> [Jesper Harder]
>
>> I don't think I understand why a compatibility function is needed.
>> Doesn't both Emacs and XEmacs have 'executable.el'?
>
> I do not know about now, but when I wrote it, this surely was because
> I stumbled on some [X]Emacs which did not have the function.  I'm not
> enough of an academician for creating solutions and problems all at
> once...  :-).

I guess it would have to be XEmacs since Emacs doesn't have
`locate-file'.  

Anyway, `executable-find' is autoloaded in several other Gnus files:
binhex.el, uudecode.el, mm-decode.el et al.  So, it probably doesn't
break anything (that's not already broken) to use the same method in
spam.el.




  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-09  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08 12:21 Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-08 14:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-10-08 23:38   ` Jesper Harder
2002-10-08 23:57     ` François Pinard
2002-10-09  1:35       ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-10-09 14:54     ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-10-09  1:02   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-09 14:53     ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-10-09 23:09       ` Alex Schroeder
2002-10-17  9:24   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2002-10-18  1:31     ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-10-18  1:47       ` Katsumi Yamaoka

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