From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keisuke Nishida To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo Cc: guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: patch: M-x emacs-version Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:08:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <87k8ixftez.fsf@PC486.Niemitalo.LAN> <87em934ixa.fsf@PC486.Niemitalo.LAN> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00052.html Kalle Olavi Niemitalo writes: > > and provide a Lisp function `use-scheme-module' or something. > > This could be made part of `require': if the required feature is > a list, it would be interpreted as a Scheme module name. Perhaps > that is a bad idea; it would overload the meaning of a primitive. I guess we will use a whole new package management system in the future, so we don't need to care about this too much for the moment. > > I'm not sure whether we should include this subdirectory in a > > archive instead of a patch. > > Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do you mean the src > subdirectory and guile-emacs-*.tar.gz archives? If so, I think > it is not useful there. Yes, that's what I meant. > I hope it will be easier to use guile-emacs with non-20.6 > versions of Emacs if the tar.gz contains either the patch or a > way to generate it. Files in the src directory don't help with > this: to generate the patch from them, one also needs the > emacs-20.6 source which may not be available when emacs-20.9 is > current. That's right. I'll provide the patch with tarball, while maintain the src directory in the CVS repository. We could add more patches by creating subdirectories for other Emacsen.