From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
Subject: Re: Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus.
Date: 21 Sep 1997 14:02:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rjn2l6lvs9.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "20 Sep 1997 20:37:03 -0400"
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> Libraries that a
> package requires should be distributed with that package.
This is true for static C libraries used by C programs, but very
unprofessional for Emacs packages. The different is that different
versions of a C library can co-exist in different C programs, but the
equivalent does not hold for Emacs.
> If you do not you are going to have a *LOT* of people asking
> the exact same question on gnu.emacs.gnus: "where can I get custom?"
This is preferable to:
"I just installed Gnus, and W3 no longer works"
(the current #1 question on the w3 lists)
"I just installed Gnus, and the modeline is no longer inverse"
(I found out that Emacs 20.1 was released by someone sending
me this)
Add to that all the unpredictable errors the bundling will
cause in the future.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-21 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <rjpvq5ob9y.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.dk>
1997-09-19 15:18 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-09-19 16:17 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-19 16:20 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-09-19 16:24 ` Jan Vroonhof
[not found] ` <x7sov15et2.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-19 19:53 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7en6k7ls1.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-20 19:49 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x767rv5wue.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 1:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7n2l7uxmd.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 4:36 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7hgbewv10.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 16:12 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-21 16:39 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-09-21 12:48 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-09-21 4:15 ` Karl Anderson
1997-09-19 20:04 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-09-19 22:27 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-09-20 0:08 ` SL Baur
1997-09-20 1:06 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-09-20 1:59 ` Yet Another Emacs Project (YAEP) Richard Coleman
[not found] ` <x7hgbg7m0l.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-20 12:09 ` Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus Johan Danielsson
1997-09-20 0:52 ` Yet Another Emacs Project (YAEP) Richard Coleman
1997-09-20 18:27 ` Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <x7202j5wpc.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 1:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7raajuy5j.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 4:34 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7k9gawv71.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-21 16:10 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x7soux2wx3.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-22 16:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x790wpjjp8.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-22 19:15 ` Hrvoje Niksic
[not found] ` <x73emx3rex.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-22 23:47 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-25 21:29 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-09-26 6:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-21 16:44 ` Alan Shutko
[not found] ` <x7pvq12wso.fsf_-_@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-22 23:37 ` Gnus 5.5 and MBSK Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <x7en6gbxyr.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-09-23 4:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-22 7:10 ` Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus Kai Grossjohann
1997-09-21 2:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <6fzpp7kocq.fsf@half.dna.lth.se>
1997-09-21 16:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-09-22 15:52 ` William M. Perry
1997-09-22 17:14 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-09-22 18:02 ` Per Abrahamsen
1997-09-22 23:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <oqvhyrb2l3.fsf@icule.progiciels-bpi.ca>
1997-10-21 15:11 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-10-21 16:12 ` To autoconf or not to autoconf (Was Re: Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus.) William M. Perry
1998-02-07 20:27 ` Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus François Pinard
1997-10-24 22:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-10-25 0:57 ` Matt Simmons
1997-10-30 12:55 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-10-30 15:11 ` William M. Perry
1997-10-30 15:23 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-10-30 15:46 ` William M. Perry
1997-09-21 12:02 ` Per Abrahamsen [this message]
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