Re: xemacs vs emacs
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Reiner Steib writes:
> I think what you wrote [...] might give the wrong impression that
> an XEmacs user receives more current and supported versions of
> "third-party" packages such as Gnus and AUCTeX compared to using
> Emacs.
But that impression is not wrong, depending on versions. Any user of
XEmacs 21 -- released in 1998! -- has access to a version of Gnus and
AUCTeX more recent than that distributed with any version of Emacs 20
or Emacs 21 -- of which there are known to be many users.
After
apt-get install emacs21 xemacs21 auctex
the version of AUCTeX for Emacs is newer than that for XEmacs. And of
course, the stable Emacs version is Emacs 22, anyway.
Emacs policy toward those users is "Upgrade Emacs or lose
support",
which is reasonable, given resource constraints ... but it is not
XEmacs's policy.
No, XEmacs' policy is that there is no support to start with... Anyway,
I find your spinning remarkable: AUCTeX is still supported for Emacs 21
(meaning versions of Emacs that are more than 5 years old). There is no
support for XEmacs versions of that age.
Your musings are out of touch with reality.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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