Re: Gnus dependencies
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, jas(a)extundo.com wrote:
This turned out to be interesting. Gnus uses RMAIL for saving
articles to files. But the RMAIL package in XEmacs requires TM and
APEL. I think Gnus is incompatible with TM and APEL.
Why do RMAIL requires TM/APEL?
Maybe the functions Gnus needs from RMAIL could be moved to
mail-lib?
While we're at it, vm winds up loading lots of files in APEL if you
convert a rmail file to vm. In particular poe.el in APEL redefines a
large number of functions, like require. If you have advised any of
the functions that poe.el redefines then it breaks badly. This is
because poe.el does stuff like
(fset 'si:require (symbol-function 'require))
Symbol-function does not return the real function definition if the
function has been advised. I was rather annoyed when I finally
tracked down this particular problem.
-jeff