[Failure] The Package Smoketest

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

C'mon guys, we need to do something about this.  I think that the
people who are working to provide more advanced structures in Emacs
Lisp should be supported, and we've promised to do that in the stable
line and for some months after a new release gets promoted, which
realistically is a year away (at minimum).

Even though the monkey-patch hack I suggested is nowhere near as
general as I thought (I think it was Mike Kupfer who made me
understand that, thanks, Mike!), I still like it better (ie, think it
is as clean and more generalizable) than having to patch stable
versions to keep up with advances in packages' technology.  But I'll
go with whatever Vin and Norbert think is best.

The alternatives on the table are

  - My monkey-patch, which installs 21.5's autoloads builder into 21.4
    during the package build for packages which need it, and will work
    for all versions of 21.4 AFAIK

  - Mike's patch to 21.4, which only works for some future version of
    21.4

  - both, so that we can support building the packages with earlier
    versions of XEmacs, but have the relevant technology in 21.4 for
    possible future use

The XEmacs Package Smoketest writes:
 > These are the results from the XEmacs Package Smoketest:
 > 
 >      21.5-nomule    -- ok
 >      21.5-mule      -- ok
 >      21.4-mule      -- errors
 >      21.4-nomule    -- errors
 > 
 > For details check "http://labb.contactor.se/~matsl/smoketest/logs"
 > -- 
 > This is generated by the XEmacs Package Smoketest.
 > 
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