Re: [Q] Re: [xemacs-base] Add byte-compiler warning control library

* Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: If a package knows what it is doing in that it needs a specific version of some lib it should be implementing the needed functionality itself to maintain version-independence. Yes, I remember him saying along those lines. `package-suppress' first appeared on Feb 3rd, 2005, and to the best of my knowledge, I'm the first to say anything about it not working... in 2007. Nobody else has said anything simply because nobody else has noticed that `package-suppress' doesn't work. But that isn't surprising... There is currently a total of two suppressed libs in the packages, both in xemacs-base. Namely, `regexp-opt.el' and `easy-mmode.el'. Looking a little closer [1] $ diff -bBU0 pkg-regexp-opt core-regexp-opt | wc -l => 0 $ diff -bBU0 pkg-easy-mmode core-easy-mmode | \ grep -v '\(;;;###\|＠＠\)' | wc -l => 12 No wonder nobody has noticed, the differences are non-existent to trivial at best. * Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: OK, this is yet another perfect example of why `package-suppress' needs to _completely_ suppress the library and not just its autoloads. Having `package-suppress' do _anything_ is the first step, though. Take 2 aspirin, call me in the morning if pain persists. :-) Footnotes: [1] The grep in the 2nd command is simply to eliminate changes that were just insertion/deletion of autoload cookies and to get rid of "hunk headers" to give a better representation of amount of real changes. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | SXEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------------&lt;steve(a)sxemacs.org&gt;---| _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta