Re: Moving file associations to packages
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 18:38, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I don't want to _move_ stuff out of 21.4 until it's been
beaten on a
bit by the testers.
Ok, I guess 21.5 is the place to test this kind of stuff. Here's a
suggestion how to proceed with this:
1) Copy applicable stuff from 21.5's files.el to corresponding files
in packages.
2) Roll these packages into pre-release, test with 21.[145].
3) No breakage -> remove the duplicated entries from 21.5's files.el.
4) No breakage -> remove the duplicated entries from 21.4's files.el.
5) No breakage -> move the affected packages to stable dirs.
Any reported breakage would roll back the whole chain of changes.
Sounds good?
There are also some cases where there are shadows in the alist. I
think it's probably a good idea to keep any shadowing regexps in the
defvar in the appropriate order, at least for now.
Ok. I'll have a look at those shadows if they're still valid and can't
be worked around.
Note that add-to-list doesn't protect us at all if somebody
changes a
regexp, eg from "\\.tex$" to "\\.\\(tex\\|sty\\)$".
True, but add-to-list (without the new &optional APPEND) inserts stuff
at the beginning of the list, so it should be safe, assuming that the
list is processed from begin to end. The add-to-list'ed entries could
cause some shadows, but wouldn't break anything, no?
--
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at xemacs.org