Re: Replacing gnus package with pgnus

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Jake Colman writes:

> I just installed Xemacs 21.1 and wish to replace the production gnus shipped
> with XEmacs with the current version of pgnus.  

> I need to do this locally so that only I see the superceded package;
> other users should continue to see the original package.

The simplest way to do this is the undocumented way.  Note to FSF Emacs
users: this only works for XEmacs 20.4+.

    mkdir -p ~/.xemacs/lisp
    ln -s /path/to/gnus/lisp ~/.xemacs/lisp/pgnus

That's it!  No need to change anything in your .emacs file.

If you want to also have the etc package set up correctly, do this:

    mkdir -p ~/.xemacs/etc
    for f in `echo /path/to/gnus/etc/*`
    do
      ln -s $f ~/.xemacs/etc
    done

-- 
Colin