Re: 'mule-fonts' hadling (Re: gtk mule-fonts note)

Ilya> . Use when adding specs Ilya> So the `mule-fonts' specifier tag is for use only while Ilya> adding specifications to specifier, and it is never used to Ilya> restrict match while instancing specifiers. What makes you say that? I used to use it a lot in my own code, just as x-symbol does. Ilya> In particular, in `x-symbol' there are no obvious checks Ilya> like that before using `mule-fonts'. That's a bug in x-symbol, I'd say. ;; This can't hurt, unless there's other code that bogusly assumes ;; the specifier tag is defined in core. (unless (valid-specifier-tag-p 'mule-fonts) (define-specifier-tag 'mule-fonts)) Ilya> Then the tag must be defined not after initializing devices Ilya> of particular type, but just after loading `custom'. What makes you say this? Specifier tags can be defined any time before use, even (as above) in user code. Ilya> . Use when instancing? Ilya> Or instancing restriction is also intended? It wasn't historically. I don't know why Ben deleted that definition. If you want to research the ChangeLogs and patches and explain what he thought he was doing, fine. Or you can come up with more convincing descriptions of what's going on and why what you propose is the right thing to do. If not, I'm not going to approve much of anything until I've had time to do that research myself, and it's not high priority. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences 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.