[Failure] The Package Smoketest

[Norbert Koch]

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

Hi!

> 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

I think, I only want a fast solution.  I have lost track of the packages
I'm allowed to release (see the "spill" Jerry spotted).

I had the impression Vin wanted to release the next stable version some
time ago, so I thought putting in the necessary code into the stable
version is to be favoured.

Vin do you have a timeline?

So, I'm for the third option.

norbert.