Re: newsticker and emacs-goodies-el

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

I wrote:

> I just realised that `newsticker' needs xml.el which XEmacs in woody
> doesn't have.
> 
> My choices are:
> 
> - depend on versioned xemacs (and the package will no longer be
>   installable on woody, but we're releasing soon so it doesn't matter?).
> 
> - don't byte-compile on XEmacs (and remove this limitation soon before
>   the freeze)
> 
> - don't byte-compile on XEmacs if it doesn't have xml (means extra code
>   in my templates).
> 
> - add some version of xml.el deep in the package's load-path (which one?)

- change the (require 'xml) in newsticker.el to a non-fatal (load).
  That way the package will byte-compile but newsticker won't work
  on stable's XEmacs.  The package will still be installable and all
  other files will be usable.

Peter