Re: problem startup xemacs 21.4 SuSE Linux 9.0

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

>     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.

I don't think it is necessary to encode the version numbers into the
file name of the rpm. If one uses apel-xemacs.rpm and xemacs.rpm
downloaded from the same directory, one can assume that they are built
to work together.

> There probably should be dependencies on the x.y.z XEmacs, and
> conflicts with other versions.

Good idea, I'll add that.

> 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.

Putting APEL into the version-specific load-path sounds like the
perfect solution.

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Mike FABIAN   <[email protected]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian