From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: Compatibility aliases, defsubsts, and macros... Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:50:24 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <31646.1138686624@olgas.newt.com> References: <22611.1138658353@olgas.newt.com> <25022.1138664207@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138686673 13186 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 05:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 06:51:02 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 1F3oPl-0007qe-B6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:50:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3oSk-0008BD-25 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:53:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F3oSQ-0008A0-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F3oSN-00088d-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3oSN-00088a-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.69.195.62] (helo=pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F3oQl-0004Ec-0q; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:51:55 -0500 Original-Received: from h-68-165-3-12.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.165.3.12] helo=olgas.newt.com) by pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1F3oPI-0000wC-00; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:50:24 -0500 Original-Received: by olgas.newt.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 463EC17002; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:50:24 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from olgas.newt.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olgas.newt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F95816FD8; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:50:24 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Miles Bader's message of Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:41:03 +0900. X-Mailer: MH-E 7.85+sans-entropy; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.4 X-Image-URL: http://www.newt.com/wohler/images/bill-diving.png Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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:49810 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:11470 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > 2006/1/31, Bill Wohler : > > > #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 ;-). -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.