nnrss with emacs 21

nnrss with emacs 21

[Paul Roberts]

Hello everyone, sorry if this question has been asked before, but I
couldn't find anything in the archives.

Basically, I'm using Emacs 21 and Gnus 5.9.0 and I don't seem to have
the nnrss backend available.

In the FAQ, it says the latest version of Gnus is 5.8.something, and
this the version of the latest debian package, but I haven't installed
this package because my gnus came with emacs 21.

Am I right in assuming, then, that Gnus has been merged into the Emacs
code, so its no longer distributed separately, and that nnrss.el does
not come in the Emacs 21 distribution?

If so, where can I get it?

Thanks for your help everyone!

Cheers, - Paul

Re: nnrss with emacs 21

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Clemens" == Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

Jack> I believe it's in there, but even if you build it from CVS, you
Jack> won't get nnrss.el, unless you do something first.  You need to
Jack> install the xml library before you can use nnrss.el, and I
Jack> haven't figured out how to satisfy (require 'xml).  If someone
Jack> can tell me how to do that, I'd be really grateful.

Clemens> boy, you had me scared there!  i have just this in my .gnus:

[...]

Clemens> ps: emacs 21 here, freebsd, oort gnus from CVS, has been
Clemens> working weeks now perfectly :)

Here's a relevant chunk of code from lisp/dgnushack.el:

    (condition-case code
	(require 'xml)
      (error
       (message "No xml: %s %s" (cadr code) (or (locate-library "xml") ""))
       (setq files (delete "nnrss.el" files))))

If your compilation environment can return t for (require 'xml), it'll
build nnrss.el, else it won't.  

What do you get for (locate-library "xml")?  

Jack.
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Re: nnrss with emacs 21

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Clemens" == Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

[...]

Clemens> ps: emacs 21 here, freebsd, oort gnus from CVS, has been
Clemens> working weeks now perfectly :)

Okay, I think I've found the disconnect.  I'm using XEmacs, you're
using Emacs.  That's a serious and relevant difference.

Now, if anyone knows how to make (require 'xml) work under XEmacs, I
would really appreciate it.  Thanks!

Jack.
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