Re: autoload generation differences in Emacs and XEmacs

Mark> Is there some rule about defcustom forms that Oort is Mark> breaking? Probably there are no rules. Oort is simply behaving in an implementation-dependent way. Mark> Should XEmacs consider moving to the Emacs way of handling Mark> the autoload declaration of defcustom forms? Not soon. We intend to maintain backward compatibility with 21.1, and it is unclear how this might affect things. XEmacs has a perhaps separate feature for handling defcustoms that would probably be affected. So this will take some time to work out, I suspect. Mark> Does anyone have suggestions on better ways to handle this? Gnus could stop depending on implementation-specific features. If you want to autoload forms that will result in variable references, I think you really have to require the file that contains the variable definition. -- 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.