AUCTeX (was: Re xsymbol included in the SUMO tar ball)

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: Hello I already told Ville, that I would volunteer maintaining the AUCTeX package since it is very outdated; concerning preview-latex and x-symbol let us put them aside for the moment. However I would, at least, partially understand what I am doing, so here are a couple of questions, some are of technical, some of 'political' nature (some of my questions will be very basic, but I never really worked for example with cvs) 1. The relation between 3rd party packages and offical one: You already wrote that it is important were such package are generated, however you said, a package could be installed in /prefix/xemacs/xemacs-package or ~/.xemacs/xemacs-package or /prefix/xemacs/site-packages If so why does Christophs Makefile contain the line PACKAGEDIR = $(HOME)/.xemacs/xemacs-packages (his package is supposed to be installed in this directory) but I could not find such a target in the Makefiles of the CVS, I downloaded (see below) Political question: suppose I generated a new AUCTeX package could this also be put on the official AUCTeX page or is there a danger that it will be considered as a 3rd party pkg and installed in ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages 2. I tried first to built up the existing 1.33 AUCTeX package, based on 10g, before going to the 11.13 version, I want to be sure that I did correctly I first downloaded the cvs tree, by cvs -d:pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs login cvs -f -z3 -d:pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs checkout -P xemacsweb cd xemacsweb/ cvs co packages cvs co package-control cd packages/ cvs co xemacs-base cd xemacs-base/ make cd .. cd auctex/ make It did not work for my 21.4.12 no mule version!!! I frequently download and compile AUCTeX myself and never had this kind of problem. While xsymbol detects whether a mule or no-mule version is used, I am not so sure about AUCTeX, I have to ask David, but I want to know whether a -with-no-mule compiled AUCTeX would run under mule and vice versa. I expect that a -with-mule compiled AUCTeX would run with no mule and *not* vice versa. I personally don't use Mule, but think the AUCTeX should be compiled such that it is usable for both. 3. The make process worked for xemacs-21.4.12 with mule, but no binball was generated. I thought the generated binball would be in /tmp/stagging?? 4. Windows version. Can the generated AUCTeX package be used for the Win9x/NT/2000/etc version of Xemacs or do I have to compile another one?? Regards Uwe