Re: '--with-file-coding'

Uwe> I just checked the configuration of the old (which is now in Uwe> stable) vs the new (which is in testing and unstable) debian Uwe> pkg: the old one had --with-file-coding on the new has it Uwe> off. Open a Debian bug, that's just dumb, as it introduces gratuitous incompatibilities with Mule XEmacs and GNU Emacs. I'll check whether it's default in 21.4 and if not, I'll submit a patch and recommendation to make it so for the next release. It's a user-visible change, so we've been conservative about it, but I think its time has come. Uwe> Another point is the strange option: Uwe> '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages: Uwe> :/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' Uwe> I remember David Kastrup complaining about it, since it Uwe> shadows 3rd party pkg which are put in say site-lisp. Does Uwe> anybody has a comment about that issue as well? As Adrian pointed out, site-packages should come ahead of xemacs-packages. Packages for XEmacs use should be put in one of the site-packages hierarchies. site-lisp is deprecated, but an option is provided to configure it (I forget whether it defaults on or off now). You should check for that option in the Debian build. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.