Re: xemacs vs emacs

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: If there was a way to persuade anybody to do anything, the "differently" would not be an issue. I don't care just how the XEmacs developers choose to have external packages integrated as long as they actually follow through. But policies without workers are useless. If you don't want me to set the record straight, then don't slander me on publicly available mailing lists, pontificating about AUCTeX and my purported "objection by principle" of its XEmacs packaging. Again: I have never objected, and certainly not "by principle" to anybody integrating AUCTeX any way he likes into XEmacs (as long as the licence is heeded) and have supported such endeavors in the past. At the very least, leave it to the actual XEmacs developers working on AUCTeX integration into Emacs to comment on my stance. At least they have a clue about what is being done by who, and what not, and why. You could at least ask them before starting your stories. To give those willing to work on XEmacs a good point of reference, there is a fully working XEmacs package provided already by AUCTeX (and has been for years) which makes very clear what should get installed into which place (starting from the original tarball) and what additional files are generated in that course, and what content is supposed to be in there (you could just check the generated files in, anyway). I even posted the respective file move/copy/rename information from git to get from our source tarball to our XEmacs package tarball. So you have your policies, you have a complete working reference package generated from the original source, you have a list of what goes where from where. If it still takes years for existing volunteers to get things into place (by the way, it is not that I have not also tried at some point and given up in disgust after investing quite a lot of time before reverse engineering the package layout and generating it manually), it means that either the package system and/or the connected policies are horribly broken and don't work for getting things done, or nobody works on XEmacs anymore, or both. And I refuse to make either of those my problem or accept blame for it. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta