[APPROVE] tm requires vm-easymenu but it is gone

Robert Widhopf-Fenk hack at robf.de
Wed Apr 23 17:43:53 EDT 2008


On Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 05:35:43, Stephen Turnbull wrote:
> Robert Widhopf-Fenk writes:
> 
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> Note that currently the 21.4 builds are broken due to use of
> 21.5-only features by the JDE package.  Only if the 21.5 builds are
> broken do you need to worry.  (If you want to you can check the
> tails of the
> 21.4 builds to make sure they're not VM-related, but that will get
> boring quickly, since every commit to *any* package generates a
> build report.)

Thanks Stephen.

>  > Removing the dependency should not do any harm and VM IMHO
>  > does not require TM anymore.
> 
> We should find a way to deprecate TM, since it's been as obsolete as
> metamail for about 10 years.  Only RMail could use it nowadays.

While glimpsing at the code I could not see any obvious
problems, but I am not sure if tm-vm has been broken by
other changes which are not so apparently.

But anyway, I agree with Stephen.  IMHO tm-vm is not needed
for VM anymore.

Robert



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