-This package contains a beta version of Gnus. The lisp directory
-contains the source lisp files, and the texi directory contains a
-draft of the Gnus info pages.
+This package contains a beta version of Gnus (beta because the final version
+is the one included in Emacs). The lisp directory contains the source lisp
+files, and the texi directory contains a draft of the Gnus info pages.
To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously
done, because you are reading this.
You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
-can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory. If you are
-using XEmacs, you *must* say "make EMACS=xemacs". In that case you
-may also want to pull down the package of nice glyphs from
-<URL:http://www.gnus.org/etc.tar.gz>. It should be installed
-into the "gnus-5.6.53/etc" directory.
+can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
+
+Do not say "make install". I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install". If
+you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
+I'll be very annoyed. If you say "make install" and things happen to
+work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
+won't.
+
+If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
like
- (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-5.6.53/lisp") load-path))
+ (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/gnus-5.10.8/lisp") load-path))
+ (require 'gnus-load)
in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things.
To enable reading the Gnus manual, you could say something like:
- (setq Info-default-directory-list
- (cons "~/gnus-5.6.53/texi" Info-default-directory-list))
+ (require 'info)
+ (if (featurep 'xemacs)
+ (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/")
+ (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/gnus-5.10.8/texi/"))
-Note that Gnus and GNUS can't coexist in a single Emacs. They both use
-the same function and variable names. If you have been running GNUS
-in your Emacs, you should probably exit that Emacs and start a new one
-to fire up Gnus.
+No Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 21.1 or
+XEmacs 21.4.
-Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.3 or
-XEmacs 20.0. So you definitely need a new Emacs.
+To compile the Gnus manual, you either need a pretty new Emacs, or a
+pretty new version of the texinfo tools.
Then you do a `M-x gnus', and everything should... uhm... it should
work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the
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