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

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 03/ 1/11 08:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> And when the XEmacs 21.5 code base goes stable?  What then?  Is that
> really as good as
>
>      (if (not (emacs-version>= 21 5)) (require 'ess-site))
>
> which right now has the same effect, but will have a different effect
> when this code base becomes stable?
We'll all rejoice then, will we not? :o)
> I also don't understand why 21.5 doesn't need ess-site, but that looks
> very fishy to me.  If there's 21.4-specific code in ESS, I don't think
> it belongs in a site config file, but rather in an appropriately named
> compatibility library.
>
> That is, although I see how it could be used to temporarily work
> around the real issue (which is hidden in ess-site somewhere), it
> seems to me you're storing up trouble for the future.
Well no, the issue was that the "feature" was in xemacs-beta,
not ESS.  Like you say, this would have been only temporary while I
came up with a work-around for the package/lisp directory "feature".
But, as you say, there is another way which I am using now:

(if xemacs-betaname nil (require 'ess-site))

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