Are these Emacs ports still useful?

Yasuhiro KIMURA yasu at utahime.org
Sun Dec 24 02:40:43 UTC 2017


From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Are these Emacs ports still useful?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 18:29:29 -0400

>>> A quick scan suggests that these port may have passed their usefulness.
>>> Could you speak up if they are still useful or if you feel they should
>>> be removed?
>> (snip) 
>>> - editors/apel (2010 source)
>>>   - editors/flim (2007 source)
>>>     - editors/semi (2003 source)
> 
>> They are required by www/emacs-w3m.
> 
> They are dependencies for www/emacs-w3m, but are they really required?
> Upsreams [1,2] say apel and friends are only required with quite old
> versions of Emacs that were released around 2001.

I checked '*.el' files of emacs-w3m-emacs-nox11-1.4.598.b.20170903_2
and found following lines in
${PREFIX}${EMACS_VERSION_SITE_LISPDIR}/w3m/octet.el that is
installed when OCTET_VIEWER option is enabled.

yasu at eastasia[2305]% less -N /usr/local/share/emacs/25.3/site-lisp/w3m/octet.el

(snip)

     65 ;;; Code:
     66 
     67 (eval-when-compile
     68   (require 'cl))
     69 
     70 (require 'poe)     ; for compatibility
     71 (require 'pces)    ; as-binary-process
     72 (require 'mime)    ; SEMI
     73 (require 'static)
     74 (require 'w3m-util); w3m-insert-string

At line 72 'mime' is required, and this feature is provided by
semi. So if OCTET_VIEWER option is enabled www/emacs-w3m depends on
editors/semi.

Regards.

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Yasuhiro KIMURA


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