Re: mime-w3m not loaded automatically

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

At Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:31:42 -0400,
Dave Abrahams wrote:
> 
> Not in my experience.  It seems to work for a while, but WL (or apel,
> flim, or semi, or all of them --- I can't remember) contains some
> backward-compatibility elisp files that only get installed for older
> Emacsen.  If you just put them in the load-path they will get picked up
> instead of the more modern version in your Emacs installation and break
> other things.
> 
> Plus you won't get WL's icons or info that way ;-)

I translated the apel, flim, semi, wanderlust logic for my pases
packaging system. It was indeed difficult, involving a lot of
conditional installation. Here you can see the results, which I think
may be a little clearer to read than the Makefiles:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~egh/pases/trunk/files/head:/systems/apel/apel.pasdef
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~egh/pases/trunk/files/head:/systems/flim/flim.pasdef
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~egh/pases/trunk/files/head:/systems/semi/semi.pasdef
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~egh/pases/trunk/files/head:/systems/wl/wl.pasdef

best, Erik

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