Re: [Q GNUS] Set defcustom defaults to nil to avoid byte-compile problem

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Mike Kupfer writes:
> 
>  > I'm a little unclear on whether we are still using the convention
>  > of tagging changes like this with
>  > 
>  >   ;; XEmacs change  
>  > 
>  > Can someone clarify that for me?
> 
> It's informal, not written anywhere as far as I know.  It basically
> means "don't sync blindly because XEmacs does things differently."
> Usually it should be accompanied with a brief explanation of why.
> 
> If you don't want it in Gnus, just say so.  It's most useful in the
> core or packages maintained by the XEmacs Dev Team since many
> different people may sync code.

Oh, I'm okay with having it it Gnus.  The reason I asked was I thought
that was the convention, but I couldn't find anything about it in the
XEmacs Developers Guide.

cheers,
mike