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Re: Tests, Emacs-25 and Conditional Features


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: Tests, Emacs-25 and Conditional Features
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:20:30 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Michael's example shows, we have a gnutls-available-p function which
>> is defined if gnutls is not available, but for libxml, we check for
>> non-definition of functions.
>
> It would be trivial to add a libxml2-available-p function, but I fail
> to see how is this different from using fboundp.  And AFAIU, in the
> context of this discussion, you don't want to trust the likes of
> gnutls-available-p, either.

One is one way, the other is the other way.

Principle of least surprise and all that stuff.

Phil



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