>>>> "Moiself" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs
<youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
SY> |--==> "MS" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
MS> You're right, but the code in question was written at a time where we
MS> *had* to get at the packages because of the dumped-lisp files. Once
MS> they go away completely, I'm all for scratching all the code
MS> associated with it.
MS> Steve (Youngs, that is): are there any left?
SY> I'm pretty sure that there aren't. The XEmacs I built after my hard
SY> drive crash was built without *any* packages installed. It built and
SY> ran fine.
Moiself> That wasn't the question: the question is if building *with* packages
Moiself> installed still finds any dumped-lisp.el files there. If it doesn't,
Moiself> Steve and I would rather remove the code silliness associated with it
Moiself> entirely, a plan Steve Baur and I hatched a long time ago.
So, the only one left seems to be egg-its. Could the MULE folks
and/or Stephen comment on how this is handled?
- Do we need to dump with the stuff in dumped-lisp?
- Could we do it with auto-autoloads instead?
- Do XEmacs/MULE binary packages ship with egg-its dumped?
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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