2007-04-27 sumo is missing MANIFEST.erc

Jerry James james at xemacs.org
Wed Dec 17 11:39:03 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> In fact we have two fixes.  One which involves changes to 21.4 and
> thus is not backward compatible to existing installations in the sense
> that anyone with an existing installation < 21.4.22 who wants to build
> all packages would have to upgrade to 21.4.22.  The other involves a
> monkey-patch which could be added to the package build process and
> used only on those installations that don't support it (it involves
> adding a new variable, and thus a boundp test for that variable would
> be definitive).  The former fix is preferred by Mike but Vin isn't
> doing anything about it, and the latter requires monkey-patching,
> which has its own set of problems.

Is Vin not doing anything about it because he doesn't have time, or
because he disagrees with that direction?
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Jerry James
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