Re: [bug-mailutils] mailutils-mh: Compatibility with new MH-E

[Peter S Galbraith]

Mark D. Baushke <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > OK. Can I send you a patch?
> 
> Yes. Send the patch to address@hidden ... 

One of us (or more) should track their CVS.

>                                                             we will
> probably end up with a change to how we use our current mh-nmh-flag
> variable to control such things as the differences between MH and nmh to
> allow for mailutils-mh too... but for now, you might as well use a
> conditional of mh-mailutils-mh-flag being t if MH-E is using
> mailutils-mh as the underlying package. We can clean things up more at a
> later time.
> 
> In mh-utils.el, we should probaby put
> 
> (defvar mh-mailutils-mh-flag nil
>   "Non-nil means mailutils-mh is installed on this system instead of MH.")
> ;;;###autoload
> (put 'mh-mailutils-mh-flag 'risky-local-variable t)

Right, once we have something to use that flag for.  :-)
e.g. code that uses the long options or something else.

> It would also be well if you could tell us how we may determine that the
> user has installed mailutils-mh from within the mh-find-progs function.
> 
>       Thanks,
>       -- Mark

At least on Debian:

(setq mh-progs "/usr/bin/mu-mh"
      mh-lib "/usr/share/mailutils/mh"
      mh-lib-progs mh-progs)

Peter

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