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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> I just noticed that things like xpm-mode.el are not in finder-inf.el..
> This in on 19.15p7 , I don't have any 20.x at work.

> It's seems like finder-inf.el wasn't update for a long time. (The
> version in 19.15 is the same as in 19.14, but xpm-mode has been around
> even longer).

Yes.  The magic batch command (I finally sat down and figured it out)
is:

$ cd lisp/utils
$ ../../src/xemacs -batch -q -l finder -f finder-compile-keywords

That'll need to get put in the 20.3 build somewhere.

> Can we have this file updated for 19.16.

Done.

> For 20.3 this must probably become part of the build/dump processes
> and include packages too.

Agreed.  This was already on the TODO list for 20.3.

> I think that the packages finder is currently underused and needs
> some marketing (I only know about it since it's hierarchy was nicked
> for custom)

Agreed.  I've been advocating its care and feeding (standard
lisp-mnt.el prologs and Keywords:) but not very loudly.

> Jan

> P.S. At the very least  it should be in the "things to do at release
> time" file. Unfortunately I don't have that so I cannot supply a patch
> for you steve :-)

There isn't a good ``things to do at release time'' file, perhaps
there ought to be ...

