Re: declare-function in files from Gnus (hashcash.el, imap.el)

[Ralf Angeli]

* Reiner Steib (2007-11-30) writes:

> I think the following changes...
>
> 2007-11-27  Dan Nicolaescu  <address@hidden>
> [...]
>       * mail/hashcash.el (message-narrow-to-headers-or-head)
>       (message-fetch-field, message-goto-eoh)
>       (message-narrow-to-headers):
>       [...] Declare as functions.
>
> 2007-11-29  Glenn Morris  <address@hidden>
> [...]
>       * net/imap.el (sasl-find-mechanism, sasl-mechanism-name)
>       (sasl-make-client, sasl-next-step, sasl-step-data)
>       (sasl-step-set-data)
>       [...] Declare as functions.
>
> ... will break compatibility of Gnus with Emacs 21, Emacs 22.1 and
> XEmacs when synced to Gnus repository (doesn't happen immediately,
> because Miles is on a trip).  
>
> The files came from Gnus and are only used by Gnus, AFAIK.  We could
> probably skip these changes when syncing, keeping the files identical
> simplifies maintenance.
>
> Maybe we could add (defalias 'declare-function 'ignore ...) (like in
> Emacs 22.2) to `gnus/lisp/dgnushack.el' (in Gnus).

There is the same problem with RefTeX.

Can somebody explain why these `declare-function' calls are needed?

-- 
Ralf