From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.mail.mh-e.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compatibility aliases, defsubsts, and macros... Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:03:59 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <87d5i4kvcw.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: <22611.1138658353@olgas.newt.com> <25022.1138664207@olgas.newt.com> <31646.1138686624@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139001444 3652 80.91.229.2 (3 Feb 2006 21:17:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Fri Feb 03 22:17:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gmmd-mh-e-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F58IU-0006hU-Jm for gmmd-mh-e-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:16:51 +0100 Original-Received: from sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net (sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net [10.3.1.7]) by sc8-sf-spam1.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECFA4889B4; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:13:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F58ER-0003jr-QQ for mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:12:39 -0800 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1F58EQ-0002XM-9K for mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:12:39 -0800 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F58Dn-0004vs-A3 for mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from m110e36d0.tmodns.net ([208.54.14.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from wohler by m110e36d0.tmodns.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:11:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: m110e36d0.tmodns.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MFC+8xhmC6h0JxxAqZyiaogAn/k= X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Original-Sender: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Forum for the MH-E developers List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:03:59 -0800 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:11563 gmane.emacs.devel:49979 Archived-At: Bill Wohler writes: > 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 ;-). Done. -- 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642