From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compatibility aliases, defsubsts, and macros...
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:50:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31646.1138686624@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Miles Bader's message of Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:41:03 +0900. <fc339e4a0601301641w606a7efbj@mail.gmail.com>
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> 2006/1/31, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>:
> > > #2 is very important; the bad old practice of just defining the
> > > standard functions on systems which didn't have it built in (as you
> > > demonstrate) caused many problems.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, do you remember the problems?
>
> It intereferes with other packages that are trying to test the
> environment by probing the existance or non-existance of certain
> functions.
"Bing." Lightbulb goes off. Got it. Of course. Thanks.
Fixing those baddies in MH-E now before you notice ;-).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 21:59 Compatibility aliases, defsubsts, and macros Bill Wohler
2006-01-30 23:05 ` Miles Bader
2006-01-30 23:36 ` Bill Wohler
2006-01-31 0:41 ` Miles Bader
2006-01-31 5:50 ` Bill Wohler [this message]
2006-02-03 21:03 ` Bill Wohler
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