Re: [emms-help] Fwd: please remove bundled tq.el

[Lucas Bonnet]

Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:

> Jonas Bernoulli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Actually "available separately" was wrong - is part of GNU Emacs. 
>> If think it is not part of XEmacs though.
>>
>> You should probably move this file to a separate directory, add file
>> .nosearch (to it to prevent the directory from being added to the
>> load-path) and then only use the bundled version when necessary:
>>
>> ,----
>> | (or (require tq nil t)
>> |     (let ((load-path
>> |            (cons (expand-file-name "fallback-libs"
>> |                                    (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)
>> |                                    load-path))))
>> |       (require 'tq)))
>> `----
>>
>> Gnus does it similar to this.
>
> Back in the day mwolson modified tq and therefore added their own
> version:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emms-help/2007-02/msg00016.html
>
> I think we should remove tq from Emms completely if nobody complains,
> and then deal with any breakage as complaints come in (and if no
> complaints come in...)


That would break emms-mpd for XEmacs users, but with some explaining and
a workaround (step 1 - download tq.el, step 2 - you're done) that could
work, so I'm ok with the removal.


Regards,
-- 
Lucas

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