Re: Gnus broken with current CVS XEmacs 21.1.9 version
What is the status of this? Jason Mastaler reported that the latest
CVS gnus does not work against 21.1.9; is there a patch for XEmacs?
- vin
>>>> On 08 Dec 1999, Yoshiki Hayashi
<t90553(a)m.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> said:
Yoshiki> Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> writes:
Yoshiki> Then, Gnus wasn't running fine on XEmacs 21.2 for some
Yoshiki> months? According to the ChangeLog XEmacs 21.2 has
Yoshiki> coding-system-get after 1999-06-28.
>
> No, it should have worked for 21.2 since lisp/mule/mule-charset-el
> has: (defalias 'get-charset-property 'get)
Yoshiki> Err, sorry, now I understand the problem. I thought it was
Yoshiki> (coding-system-get ... 'mime-charset) thing.
Yoshiki> [...]
>
> >> Two problems with the code:
> >>
> >> The first one is XEmacs:
> >> XEmacs now has coding-system-get - but it doesn't have
> >> get-charset-property. If we have coding-system-get should we also
> >> have get-charset-property?
>
Yoshiki> Yes, it would be nice if we have them.
Yoshiki> But then again, this is MULE API problem. Some codes are
Yoshiki> synched with FSF and some codes are not. We really really
Yoshiki> really need to define API and stick with them. Until that
Yoshiki> happens, application needs to have workaround. This case,
Yoshiki> Gnus.
>
> Should we move those to 21.2 also?
Yoshiki> ^^^^
Yoshiki> You mean 21.1.
> 1999-05-26 SL Baur <steve(a)gneiss.etl.go.jp>
>
> * mule/mule-charset.el (charset-after): New function.
> (charset-direction): Synch with Mule, update docstring.
> (get-charset-property): New function.
> (put-charset-property): New function.
> (charset-plist): New function.
Yoshiki> Probably yes, as we know it makes Gnus happy. Like
Yoshiki> coding-system-get, it doesn't behave the way FSF does,
Yoshiki> though. This is caused by the two big problems XEmacs/MULE
Yoshiki> has: No API, bad interaction between mule-base and core.
Yoshiki> I guess this will continue for a while. Sigh.
Yoshiki> --
Yoshiki> Yoshiki Hayashi