From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sendmail-program default is determined at compilation time Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zmdjdoj9.fsf@candyboy.here> <87bqpxc2gn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157363457 11010 80.91.229.2 (4 Sep 2006 09:50:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: toby@mi6.gen.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 04 11:50:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKB6J-0001kU-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:50:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKB6J-0007Ue-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKB5x-0007Nu-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKB5x-0007NT-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKB5w-0007NP-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GKBGR-0004Nm-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GKB5v-0003Lo-0I; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:50:19 -0400 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87bqpxc2gn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:45:28 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59309 Archived-At: There is one complication: putting sendmail-program in sendmail.el means that it won't be available unless sendmail.el is loaded (unless we autoload it, which defeats the purpose of setting its default at compile time). I don't know if any other parts of Emacs assume it is available. feedmail.el and gnus/message.el use it. I think it is better to make them load sendmail.el if they need to, than to make startup.el initialize the variable. That way it won't add to the time for starting Emacs (such delays add up). Could you please DTRT?