Re: New Emacs facilities from Gnus

[Sascha Wilde]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>> +      (if (or (featurep 'xemacs)
>> +              ;; For Emacs >= 22 we don't need smime-ldap.el
>> +              (>= emacs-major-version 22))
>> +          (progn
>> +            (require 'smime-ldap)
[...]
> Those kinds of test qualify as "yucky" in my book.
> I'd rather do
>
> (ignore-errors (require 'smime-ldap)) and then (fboundp 'smime-ldap-search).

Emacs 22 require has an optional argument NOERROR, so 
(require 'smime-ldap nil t) 
would be safe (and one can use the return value).  But I don't know if
it is portable...

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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