Re: gnus-setup.el?

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> While chasing a reference to bbdb in gnu.emacs.gnus, I happened to
> grep in my Gnus lisp dir and quite accidentally noticed gnus-setup.el.
> 
> Does this thing have any relationship to the real world?
> 
> Here are some of the more exciting things found there:
> 
> (defvar gnus-use-installed-tm running-xemacs)
> (defvar gnus-emacs-lisp-directory (if running-xemacs
>                                     "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/"
>                                   "/usr/local/share/emacs/"))
> 
> -=> 5.0.15?!? <=-
> (defvar gnus-gnus-lisp-directory (concat gnus-emacs-lisp-directory
>                                        "gnus-5.0.15/lisp/")
>   "Directory where Gnus Emacs lisp is found.")
> 
> (defvar gnus-mailcrypt-lisp-directory (concat gnus-emacs-lisp-directory
>                                             "site-lisp/mailcrypt-3.4/"))
> 
> (defvar gnus-bbdb-lisp-directory (concat gnus-emacs-lisp-directory
>                                        "site-lisp/bbdb-1.51/"))
> 
> As near as I can tell, this whole file is wondrously out-of-date.
> Does anybody actually use it?

I do, sort of.  I have this in my .emacs.el:

;;; Gnus  (most gnus hackery is in my .gnus file)
(setq gnus-use-beta t)
(setq gnus-gamma-dir "~md5i/src/elisp/gnus/")
(setq gnus-beta-dir "~md5i/src/elisp/pgnus/")
(setq gnus-base-dir (if gnus-use-beta gnus-beta-dir gnus-gamma-dir))
(setq gnus-use-installed-gnus nil)
(setq gnus-emacs-lisp-directory "~md5i/aixtree/share/emacs")
(setq gnus-gnus-lisp-directory (concat gnus-base-dir "lisp"))
(setq gnus-use-mailcrypt nil)
(add-path (active-info-dir) (list (concat gnus-base-dir "texi")))
(require 'gnus-setup (concat gnus-base-dir "lisp/gnus-setup"))

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)