Re: Stop building 21.5 nomule
>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
> I should mention that Ben talked about putting at least a UTF-8
> codec into 21.4, which would theoretically allow us to remove
> the distinction between xemacs-packages and mule-packages for
> all future versions of XEmacs.
Aidan> He suggested it; we pointed out that would involve hacking
Aidan> Mule-UCS; he thought better of it.
No, that was a different proposal. This one was to understand enough
of UTF-8 that XEmacs could recognize a character and continue parsing,
even if the character couldn't be represented in 8 bits. Then you
could wrap Mule-specific _parts_ of files in (if (featurep 'mule) ...).
Aidan> If the ISO-8859-1 coding cookies (not just the iso-2022-7
Aidan> ones) are indeed breaking the build
They're breaking the _package_ build, which is what they should do
under current policy. We probably can and should change it, though,
since ISO 8859/1 is mandatory. What to do about other
ASCII-compatible 8-bit codes is another question.
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