Re: Is the gnus XEmacs package still necessary?

[Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre%no-spam@citeweb.net>]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu> writes:
> 
> > I believe I need the fsf-compat package to compile the latest gnus
> > from CVS, but I don't think I need fsf-compat at run-time.  I do not
> > currently have a gnus package installed.
> > 
> > This is all IIRC.
> > 
> > BTW, why don't you download the gnus package once via FTP, then you
> > don't have the overhead of repeatedly getting it off the network if
> > you have to re-install.
> 
> Well, the last time I installed the gnus-X.YY package from the XEmacs
> archives was ages ago.  I've only installed it once.  If I uninstall
> and re-install, that means one more S-L-O-O-W download of gnus-1.45,
> whether I do an XEmacs install or I do the one-time FTP in order to
> save the package.  I'm trying to avoid even this single download,
> if at all possible.
> 
> But since you say that all I'd need is fsf-compat, I've already got
> that installed.  Therefore, I'm going to take the plunge and uninsall
> gnus-1.45 and hope/wish/pray for the best.
> 
> Here goes ...

if that can help, I've written an emacs like Makefile to install gnus
automagically in site-packages. the link is :

http://clefevre.citeweb.net/gnusmk.tar.gz (4KB)

unpack it in the lisp directory, then make install-package
IMHO, for Xemacs, it works better than the original Makefile.

Cyrille.
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