From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4974 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: September Gnus 0.31 is released Date: 30 Jan 1996 17:29:50 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145644 31413 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA08329 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:14:46 -0800 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:29:52 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:29:51 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 27 Jan 1996 16:13:44 -0800 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4974 Steven L Baur writes: > Generally speaking, with a development mail system it is not a wise > idea to trash an older working version in favor of the next set of > patches. That's true. > The biggest inconvenience has been the change of certain functions to > macros. It would be nice(r) not to have to rebytecompile dependent > packages like TM and Mailcrypt with each gnus change. Yup. However, there are sometime quite a lot to be gained by turning some key functions into macros, so I won't refrain from doing any such conversions in the future, if I think it's necessary... It would be nice to have an "elisp-make" function that would build dependency trees and make sure `require'd files were compiled before dependent files... -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."