Re: Bugs in xemacs' rmail, flim, mel, and vm

Simon> Yes. RMAIL in XEmacs has not changed for well over 5 years Simon> from what I can tell, and RMAIL-MIME is fairly recent. I can't recall ever seeing a patch for RMAIL, except occasionally originated by the XPRE so that it would build. Simon> I wish the standard XEmacs tar ball included all packages. Go to it. Put the SUMOs in etc/, add some Make code to unpack it. Or wait until I shuffle off 21.4. This particular bogosity has been on my "right between the eyes" list _forever_. Simon> People with limited disk space should go through extra Simon> pain, not the majority of people. That's not why the packages are distributed separately. The reason they are distributed separately is that they regularly stopped the show when they were incorporated in XEmacs. It's hard enough to get the 21.4 releases out the door without having to worry about bogosity in Gnus. Simon> But there is no official SEMI package either, so you will Simon> have to get it from RedHat, or the up-stream tar ball. Right. APEL, SEMI, tm, FLIM, and the rest of them are nasty stuff. It would be nice to have them, but there's a reason why both Kyle and Lars chose to implement MIME themselves. Or, more precisely, several kloc of reasons. Not to mention that all the docs are in Japanese (even where the vocabulary is English). Simon> Definitely. But it takes a volunteer to do it. I'd do it for $500. :-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.