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26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Merten <stefan <at> merten-home.de>
Cc: 30063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#30063: 26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:25:58 +0200

Stefan Merten <stefan <at> merten-home.de> writes:

> A good solution IMHO would be to have a reasonable list of defaults
> for (all) the executables in `rst-compile-toolsets', then check this
> list of defaults for executability and then set the default
> customization accordingly. If none of the defaults is found the
> customization for the respective symbol should be set to nil and the
> error should appear when the executable is to be used.

Yeah, that sounds like a good thing.

> [...browsing through the code...]
>
> Ok, a sensible solution would need quite an effort. So it's probably
> best to apply this patch now and when at any point in the future I
> come up with a more general solution it will do something equivalent
> or rather something better.

OK, Simen -- I think you should just apply the patch and close the bug
report, and we can hope that further improvements arrive in the future.
:-)

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