[PATCH] Building packages with 21.4

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Michael Sperber writes:

 > 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.

Norbert has already objected explicitly to the claim that patching
21.4 is a solution, and I suspect Vin doesn't like it much either.
Unless you can persuade both of them, it's definitely *un*acceptable.

As I wrote, we *can* patch 21.4, too, and I think it's a good idea.
But this is not going to stop here, I bet.  There is a huge amount of
new syntax, some of it quite gratuitous, in recent GNU Emacs, and I
really really doubt this is the last time we're going to need to patch
21.4 for a package synch.