Re: Sun package is deadwood?

Isaac> I looked at the xemacs-beta archives for information, but did not check Isaac> the FAQ. I am duly chastened. I found information on the correct Isaac> libraries to load, but not the eserve.el patch; I'll try that out. If you don't want to hack the elisp, you can do something like this: ;; now, to fake out the "bad" workshop 4.x eserve.el XEmacs ;; version checking: (let ((saved-emacs-version emacs-version)) (setq emacs-version (concat "20.x or higher " emacs-version)) (load "workshop") (setq emacs-version saved-emacs-version)) and if I remember correctly that isn't a problem in the Forte version. In case this info will help anyone, I had to set up our install here to deal with both the 4.x WorkShop and the 6.x Forte WorkShop (not that I use either of them myself but rather just use dbx, but others here that use my XEmacs install do) and I did it with the following elisp in our site-start.el: ====================================================================== ;; To get SunPro SPARCWorks WorkShop stuff to load and start properly for the ;; various flavors of WorkShop we have to use on different machines: find ;; where eserve/workshop exec is, so we know where to find the elisp for it! (require 'executable) (let ((wspath (file-truename (executable-find "workshop"))) (wslibdir)) (if wspath (progn (setq wslibdir (replace-in-string (file-name-directory wspath) "/bin/?$" "/lib")) (if (file-exists-p wslibdir) (progn (message "adding workshop lib dir (%s) to load path" wslibdir) (setq load-path (cons wslibdir load-path)) ;; then load all the required gunk for it too: (when (featurep 'tooltalk) (load "tooltalk-macros") (load "tooltalk-util") (load "tooltalk-init")) (when (featurep 'sparcworks) (load "sunpro-init") (load "ring") (load "comint") (load "annotations") ;; now, to fake out the "bad" workshop 4.x eserve.el XEmacs ;; version checking: (let ((saved-emacs-version emacs-version)) (setq emacs-version (concat "20.x or higher " emacs-version)) (load "workshop") (setq emacs-version saved-emacs-version)) )) (message "workshop lib dir (%s) missing?" wslibdir))) (message "workshop not found in exec-path?"))) ====================================================================== There may be a more elegant way to do this, but it seems to work ok here. Chuck -- Charles K. Hines <ckh(a)requesttech.com&gt; <hines(a)gderome.com&gt; Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/) Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima] "Go back to sleep, Chuck. You're just havin' a nightmare -- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)