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Re: Is it planned to remove xemacs compatibility code?


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: Is it planned to remove xemacs compatibility code?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:14:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Around Emacs code, I find many Xemacs compatibility code as
>> (cond ((featurep 'xemacs) blah ...)
>> (if (featurep 'xemacs) blah ...)
>
> Those files are typically also distributed separately from Emacs for older
> Emacsen or for XEmacs, so it is better to keep this code so as to minimize
> the difference between the version bundled with Emacs and the other version:
> any difference tends to lead to problems keeping the files in sync.

What about the files that aren't distributed separately?
Also, the manuals of some bundled packages have installation
instructions; should these be kept?

Jay




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