Re: problem startup xemacs 21.4 SuSE Linux 9.0

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> writes:

    Mike> It is not for GNU Emacs actually, it is for XEmacs. It is a
    Mike> newer apel required by the mail user agent "Wanderlust".

So much the worse for Wanderlust.  :-(

    Mike> As soon as the apel in the Sumos is updated to a
    Mike> sufficiently recent version, we could drop the additional
    Mike> apel-xemacs package again.

I don't know when this will happen, because APEL is likely to be
deprecated.  It cannot be correctly distributed as a binary any more,
because by design it must be compiled for a specific version of
Emacs.  Recently this has caused both forward (conflicts with
built-ins if built with an older version of XEmacs) and backward
(missing functions if build with a new version of XEmacs)
compatibility problems.  It also suffers from load-order problems (eg,
conflicting with fsf-compat).

    Mike> The other solution would be to remove apel completely from
    Mike> the Sumos, than one could always have the latest apel as an
    Mike> external package.

No, one can't, unless one is willing to match their Emacs to the APEL
they have installed.  However, that is probably the path we'll
eventually follow.

Sorry for the bad news.


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