Re: problem startup xemacs 21.4 SuSE Linux 9.0

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

    Mike> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> :

    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.

    Mike> That's no big problem, the APEL from apel-xemacs.rpm will
    Mike> have been build against the XEmacs from xemacs.rpm,
    Mike> i.e. they will match if one is using both packages from the
    Mike> same SuSE Linux distribution.

Well, I think you should have an xemacs-x.y.z-apel-u.v-SuSErev.rpm.
There probably should be dependencies on the x.y.z XEmacs, and
conflicts with other versions.  You see, if the function is a GNU
Emacs synch, then we sometimes _do_ add new functions in the stable
series, and that's _exactly_ the kind of thing that APEL is designed
to deal with.

Maybe we can find some way to stuff APEL into the version-specific
part of load-path.  One often forgets we have those....

    Mike> And for those who build their XEmacs from source it should
    Mike> also be no problem to build their APEL using that XEmacs.

If they're only building one.  I typically have four different
XEmacsen, sometimes more.  And it is definitely not uncommon for people
to have a 21.4 and a 21.5.



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