Re: XEmacs and ZUCTeX Problems

Ben> David Kastrup wrote: People who want the up-to-date package maintained by the core authors can get that from the AUCTeX project directly. People who want a package that conforms to XEmacs policy can get it from us. Experience will show which works better, and for which users. It's a shame that in the meantime AUCTeX will get bug reports pertaining to our distribution which varies from theirs, but I don't see any way to avoid that and satisfy our goals for our package distribution. Ben> david, it might help if you expunge concepts such as "XEmacs Ben> central" from your brain, since they don't exist. we work by Ben> consensus; there is no rms here who has global final say. Please, Ben, there is too an XEmacs Central (the review board), and if it doesn't achieve consensus, things don't change (at least, not in a coherent way). This is especially relevant to the package system. The conflict between our standard tools for package distribution and various idiosyncratic hacks used by upstream projects is a long standing problem. It's why we don't have an Emacsspeak package, it's why the JDE people don't maintain our JDE package, and it's why AUCTeX lags so badly against upstream. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering 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.