Re: compiles suffix (*.elc)

Sam Steingold writes: Sam> Now that the compiled formats of Emacs and XEmacs are officially Sam> incompatible, i.e., one cannot load files compiled with the other, we Sam> have a problem with sharing site-lisp directories. Sam> It would be nice if both emacsen refused to load files compiled with the Sam> other emacs - that would solve some problems. It would be even nicer if Sam> they used different compiled suffixes (e.g., .elx instead of .elc), which Sam> would permit sharing site-lisp directories once again. When the first XEmacs 21 is out, the site-lisp directory will be mostly obsolete and people urged to use the package directories instead. This should be enough to distinguish both elcs. IMHO, application maintainers should then consider GNU Emacs and XEmacs as 2 different Emacsen, which means installing elisp files in 2 different places and compiling them differently. Obviously, this doesn't solve the problem of using both Emacsen with an XEmacs prior to 21, but still, the problem is solved (in 21) by using a different directory structure. For the same reason, it don't think changing the extension would be usefull, while I'm not against it. I agree with Kyle that if someone has to change, it's us. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19