[PATCH] Building packages with 21.4

Norbert Koch viteno at xemacs.org
Sun Dec 23 06:20:30 EST 2007


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

Hi!

> 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

That's correct, but if it's too tedious to fix this in the packages only
I go along.  A practical and maintainable solution is a good asset to
have.

On the other hand, in my opinion the patch does not look that messy -
but then I may be biased :-)



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