Re: Bug#21215: Bad load-path in 50psgml-init.el?
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>>"Davide" == Davide G M Salvetti <salve@debian.org> writes:
Davide> I think there's a mistake in the load-path set by both
Davide> emacs19|20 versions of 50psgml-init.el.
This has already been fixed by the next upload ;-). Also, vm
has been fixed as well.
Davide> Also, psgml currently ships two 50psgml-init.el versions, only
Davide> differing in the emacsen name used in the load-path setting.
Davide> It could ship just one, to be installed in
Davide> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ by making use of the variable
Davide> `debian-emacs-flavor', whose value is a symbol representing
Davide> the emacsen version actually running.
That would be a bug. You see, psgml only installs for two
flavours of emacsen, emacs{19,20}; and it sets variables based on the
presumption that psgml is indeed available. Putting it in
etc/emacs/site-start.d/ is bad, since neither of the directories
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml and /usr/share/xemacs19/site-lisp/psgml
should be in the load path, and there fore psgml is not available for
xemacs, though the start file shall be run.
Oh, though at the moment psgml does exist in xemacsen, and
happens to be at the same version, this is not guaranteed to be so;
as a stand alone psgml package is far more nimble. Even when XEmacs
unbundles the software, the unbundled and free standing versions may
have a mismatch.
Also take vm, which is only supported on emacs19 in this
incarnation (it does come bundled in with XEmacs).
I think it would be presumtuous (and quite likely erroneous)
of me to set variables for the bundled versions, especially
since I have no idea what the XEmacs maintainers have done
about variable setting.
I move for a clarification of the emacs policy to ensure that
I do not have start files from packages I do not have access
to. psgml and vm stand alone packages are not commonly available for
all emacsen flavours, and hence do not insinuate themselves
everywhere, and this should be the recommended behaviour.
Davide> For example:
Davide> (setq load-path (cons (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name
Davide> debian-emacs-flavor) "/site-lisp/psgml") load-path))
emacs19 does not seem to define debian-emacs-flavor. I haveg
to do it manually in my .emacs.
manoj
;;
;; This is the first few line from my .emacs
;; email me if you want emacs-vers.el
;;
(load-file "~/lib/emacs/emacs-vers.el")
(if (emacs-type-eq 'fsf)
(if (emacs-version= 19 )
(progn
(setq debian-emacs-flavor 'emacs19)
(load "debian-startup")
(debian-startup 'emacs19))))
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