>>>>> "Geoffrey" == Geoffrey Furnish <furnish(a)actel.com> writes:
Geoffrey> So you don't like Perl. Fine. Who cares what you languages you like,
Geoffrey> anyway? So you don't want XEmacs hooked up to too many different
Geoffrey> things. Tough. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.
Geoffrey> Maybe you've forgotten what the GPL is all about? After seeing what
Geoffrey> has been said to John, I feel certain that my own purposes in
Geoffrey> inquiring about Elisp/C extension coupling would not impress you
In the decades that emacs has been around, there's only been two forks
that I know of: epoch and xemacs, and epoch is dead. I think that
means forking emacs into something viable and maintainable is
extremely hard.
In fact it never ceases to amaze me what xemacs can do. And the
effort that volunteers put into it to keep it going. My sincerest
thanks to them for allowing me to use such a wonderful editor.[1]
Geoffrey> either. So what's your goal? To drive away people toting uncouth
Geoffrey> baggage? Or to make XEmacs a flexible and powerful work environment?
You mean XEmacs isn't already a flexible and powerful work
environment? How does adding Perl make it more so?
By the way, I'm not opposed to these additions (I have my own
uninformed biases against perl). I'd just like the core people to
keep working on what their working on without being overly distracted
by having to support the language-and-extension-tool-of-the-day.
Ray
Footnotes:
[1] If any of you are in RTP, drop me a line. Let's have a beer!