[PATCH] Building packages with 21.4

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> Well, I couldn't come up with "therightplace", but I did get a
> minimally-invasive build with XEmacs 21.4.  Specifically, there is no
> patch to XEmacs 21.4 required.  Basically, I just monkey-patch 21.4 to
> use XEmacs 21.5.29's #'make-autoload.  I've made it a little bit
> cleaner and more general than that, and if we want to support XEmacs
> 21.4 much longer in the face of stuff like EIEIO, we're going to need
> at least this much generality.

I think this is too messy, and too confusing.  I'd rather just factor
out the names of the special operators---just like you did---and add
the more exotic operators to a file in xemacs-base.  We'll have to patch
21.4 once, but I think that's acceptable.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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