Re: select-message-coding-system

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Feb 14 2006, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Ok, it seems adding s???mail.el to contrib/ didn't work well with
> XEmacs.  Should have remembered that, I modify it in some ways each
> time I import it into XEmacs...
>
> Hm.  Either XEmacs users has to make sure they put Gnus contrib/ after
> mail-lib in load-path, or we'll somehow have to revert the
> contrib/s???mail.el files.

No, please don't fix what ain't broken.  contrib/ should *not* be in
`load-path':

,----[ contrib/README ]
| Please note that it is not good to just add this directory to
| load-path: a number of files in this directory will become part of
| more recent Emacs versions, so that you might be running obsolete
| libraries with all kinds of ill effects.
| 
| The suggested method for installation is to copy those files that you
| need to a directory which is in load-path.
`----

At least `ucs-tables.el' doesn't work at all with XEmacs:

,----[ contrib/ucs-tables.el ]
| (when (featurep 'xemacs)
|   (error "This file cannot be used with XEmacs.[...]"))
`----

> Or someone make fixes these files so they work fine on both emacsen,
> so we don't have this problem.

Bye, Reiner.
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