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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

>>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> Dynodump is obsolete now,

> Dynodump is not really obsolete yet - it will continue to be used for
> dumping on Solaris2.x, x<6.

But I thought you told me it was, oh well.  This is even better.  I
cannot maintain dynodump, have no possible way of testing it, and
in fact have done nothing except break it inadvertently while I've
been XEmacs maintainer.

Dynodump is the *perfect* candidate to become the first (c-level)
package.  I'll make up a tarball of it and put it on xemacs.org and
it will be the prototype for the MULE source package.  Basically, a
separately installed tarball that gets untarred over a fresh source
tree.

I'm preparing some details right now on what I think packages in
general should look like based on the discussion to date.  They're
going to be phased in, but the primitives need to be coded.

> One of the changes I made was to have "make" completely ignore
> dynodump on non-Solaris systems.  I didn't do a complete job of
> this

Yup, been there, been bitten already.  Do you realize how painful it
is to be part-way through a `make distclean', with all your Makefiles
already deleted and have something like that bomb?  Perhaps `make
distclean' can wait until the very final moment to delete Makefiles,
or the top level Makefile anyway?

> - Makefile.in needs more hacking 

I've stripped the references to dynodump for beta2.  I'll email you a
patch of what I've done, since I've fixed up some other loose ends.

>>> *) on a side note, I see that INSTALL doesn't mention the --mail-locking
>>> configure option.

sb> Noted.

> Steve, you're better qualified than I to write the INSTALL section for 
> mail locking.  Proof-reading of INSTALL is also appreciated.

I know.  I already agreed to do this and I thought that was why you
left it blank.

> Start with:

> http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/movemail.html

There's a reference to that in the XEmacs FAQ.
-- 
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