Hi, Also consider the fact that all maintainers may not have enough resources to have all possible flavours of Emacsen on their machines (Xemacs19, Xemacs20, emacs19, emacs20, emacs20-no-mule, Xemacs-no-mule, ...), and keep track of which versions were elc compatible anyway.
On the other hand, some packages (Quassia gnus and VM are examples) that do funny things in the Makefile in order to compile the el files; it is not just a matter of # $(EMACS) -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el Alternately, each maintainer can maintain a package for one flavour of Emacs ;-(, and have co-maintainers for ther flavours. Autocompilation may not be quite as trivial as it may seem (though by no means impossible). manoj ps. Oh, I, too, thought of making public my private quassia gnus package, but it is way too volatile, I think, for general distribution. It is not 10M, BTW, just 5675K. -- "I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it." Robert G. Ingersoll Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .