Re: bbdb missing autoloads
|--==> "GE" == Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
GE> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>If any autoload cookies have disappeared, it was done by the BBDB
>people. I didn't take any out when I made up the XEmacs package.
GE> Did you just copy their version? Maybe our old version was different
GE> from theirs?
I just put the new version in. If the old XEmacs package BBDB had
been altered from the upstream version, I wasn't aware of that. It
was a very very old package after all.
>Does the autoload that you mention (on bbdb-initialize), need to
be
>there? I'm using the current XEmacs package BBDB without any
>problems.
GE> I am not sure whether it is necessary. What is the approved way of
GE> activating bbdb this week? I have only the following in .emacs:
GE> (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
,----[ from bbdb.info... ]
| The simplest way to configure the BBDB is to include the following
| forms in your Emacs configuration file:
|
| `(require 'bbdb)'
| `(bbdb-initialize)'
|
| Note: The forms above replace the autoloads needed for previous
| versions of the BBDB.
`----
Looks like the BBDB folks deliberately removed the autoload. I don't
mind putting it back into the XEmacs package version if that's what
people want. And they can give me good reason to do so.
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