Re: Makefile dependency generation for elisp files?
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
wrote:
Why? Shouldn't we look for "(string-match \(.*\)
emacs-version)" and
fold that if we recognize (match-string 1)?
No. There are lots of variations on that theme. For example, in
xemacs-packages/python-modes/pydoc.el, function pydoc-menu-enter, we see:
(cond
;; GNU Emacs 19 or above
((and (not (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version))
;; Version 19 and above
(string-lessp "19" emacs-version))
...
which doesn't invoke match-string at all. And then there is
xemacs-packages/gnus/lisp/nntp.el, which defines the variable
nntp-async-needs-kluge thusly:
(string-match "^GNU Emacs 20\\.3\\." (emacs-version))
We should audit all of those string-match calls. Some of them look wrong.
I see quite a few that just check the version number, with no
differentiation between Emacs and XEmacs. There are quite a few looking for
"Lucid" only, and a number looking for "beta"!
Jerry, you're looking at this the wrong way. Why should you care if
anybody is interested? It's clearly interesting stuff (although
I
probably won't work on it myself). If alioth won't support an
arbitrary number of branches, I bet Canonical's Launchpad will.
That's one major reason for doing the dVCS thing. The only question
is do you want to publish.
Mebbe I should get Barry Warsaw to bring his soapbox over and preach
the wonders of unofficial public branches.
Good point. If I build it, maybe they'll come. :-) Well, like I said, I'm
not going to work on any of this stuff in earnest for a few months yet.
Still, I should put what little I do have out in public.
--
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/
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