Re: That old flamewar again [was Re: recent smiley.el changes]

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr> writes:

> The bad effect of the 'new' version is that it just breaks Gnus,

I don't know what you're talking about.  What I wrote works fine in
Emacs 21 (which was the point of doing it) and isn't used in Emacs 20
or XEmacs (where it won't work).  If you're picking it up in XEmacs, I
don't know why, and you'll have to debug the problem.

> Also, this might be stupid, but the image names you are using are not
> the same as the ones that are distributed with XEmacs for years !

Read the commentary I wrote.

> I don't think that replacing something which is working

I didn't replace anything; I added completely new code, as I had to
justify before.  Smilification previously didn't work in Emacs and now
it does (demonstrating infelicities).  It's hardly very useful, but
there you are.

> by something that might work better one day but which does not seem
> to have been tested extensively is such a good idea, especially for
> newbies.

smiley-ems.el was certainly tested.  That was essentially its purpose.
If someone has broken it so that it affects you, take it up with them.
I only use Gnus 5.9 in Emacs 21.