nndraft lossage and byte-compilation

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

I've run into various random problems with my drafts group; mostly,
I've been completely unable to access it.  This is problematic because 
I'm having other local configuration problems which result in my not
being able to send mail in some cases; I'd rather be able to save the
mail than lose it.  C-c C-d seems to work, but I can't access the
draft group at all.  I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this both here and 
on gnu.emacs.gnus in the past.

Today, on a whim, I decided to byte-compile my Gnus (couple-day-old
Oort).  And now nndraft works.

The particular thing that prompted me to try this was 'C-h f
nndraft-request-group'.  Now (with the byte-compiled Gnus) it's a
normal function, but before it was defalias'd to 'ignore.  My guess is 
that the (eval-when-compile (defalias ...)) is being evaluated when
the uncompiled file is loaded, and nnoo-import is failing to override
that alias with the appropriate nnmh function.  When the compiled file 
is loaded, there's no alias, and so calling nnoo-import works.  (This
all makes sense if defaliasing a symbol causes fboundp on it to return 
t.)

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David Maze             dmaze@mit.edu          http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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