Re: xemacs vs emacs

David Kastrup writes: That last is true, but it is precisely the same policy that we face with respect to Debian (and I assume every other distribution). They will not distribute our tarballs; they insist that they must build the SUMOs themselves and wrap them up in .debs themselves, according to their procedures. There's nothing unusual or unreasonable about this, and I do not understand why you think it should be any other way. No one has ever made such a suggestion, let alone demanded it. If there is no support for the XEmacs package system, though, it's not an XEmacs package. The point of the XEmacs package system is not merely producing tarballs of a specified format. The point of our package system is building each package in the environment in which it will be used, and verifying that it is happy to build and run in that environment, that other packages don't cause any problems for it, and that it doesn't cause any problems for other packages. We automatically do a *full* build of the whole tree for *every* change committed to the packages.[1] Why should AUCTeX be an exception to that practice? But we don't care about versatility; we care that it work in the context of our package system. This is the whole point, the only point. We don't tell you how to run your project, and we don't demand effort from you. We *offer* CVS access and *request* that you do as much of the integration work as you will, because that is the cheapest way for the community to get an updated AUCTeX as an XEmacs package. This obviously means extra work all around, with most of the burden falling on you if you will accept it. Nobody says you are under any obligation, though. *chuckle* David, we have our differences, but that doesn't make you a bad person. Still, we'd all get along a lot better if you'd admit that we just have goals that differ, and that getting everybody satisfied is going to take more effort than what it takes to satisfy *you* that *you* have done everything *you* think is necessary. Sincere regards, Footnotes: [1] See http://labb.contactor.se/~matsl/smoketest/logs for status. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta