[Q] Re: [V] Re: [PATCH] Saner MIME character set defaults in Gnus.

Ar an triú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Steve Youngs: > VETO > > * Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; writes: > > > +(eval-when-compile > > + (autoload 'latin-unity-massage-name "latin-unity") > > + (autoload 'latin-unity-maybe-remap "latin-unity") > > + (autoload 'latin-unity-representations-feasible-region "latin-unity") > > + (autoload 'latin-unity-representations-present-region "latin-unity") > > + (defvar latin-unity-coding-systems) > > + (defvar latin-unity-ucs-list)) > > This scares the shit out of me. How is this a good thing? How will > PUI + non-Mule XEmacsen cope with this? Everything inside that eval-when-compile is there to shut up the byte compiler. You can take it all out, the patch works fine. You can compile the thing with a non-Mule XEmacs, or with a XEmacs which doesn~t have the latin-unity package available, and the patch works fine. latin-unity is still checked for at runtime, and used if available. When Katsumi Yamaoka added that clause, he should perhaps have added a comment to the effect that that eval-when-compile was only to shut up the byte compiler. > This change means the Gnus package will have a dependence on the > latin-unity package.[1] Only if you add that dependency. Otherwise, it~ll build and install fine without latin-unity or Mule being available. > [...]