Release plans [was: Building packages with 21.5b29?]

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 03/ 1/11 05:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Well, there is `xemacs-betaname' but I really don't see that being
> useful.  Specifically, these things are not going to suddenly switch
> back to the old way when the beta gets promoted to stable.
>
> What you want is a version check, such as `(emacs-version>= 21 5)'.
>
> Note that, assuming I understand what you mean by the "package/lisp vs
> lisp/package problem", neither test is going to help with that because
> you have no place to put that test that will affect XEmacs's behavior
> in this respect.
Hi Stephen:

Actually, it would have helped; a simple example:

(if (not (featurep 'xemacs-betaname)) (require 'ess-site))

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