>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing
<ben_wing(a)hotmail.com> writes:
Ben> please don't do any major shuffling until we have a proper
Ben> infrastructure for supporting (a) moving of stuff between
Ben> core and packages,
This was my position anyway.
Ben> (1) it is a lot of work to move stuff around, and imho not
Ben> worth it because it doesn't get us any functionality
Ben> improvements, and we have limited resources.
This is just plain wrong. Work is involved, yes, but XEmacs out of
the box is far more functional than GNU Emacs primarily because of the
packages. And packagization has gotten us resources.
Ben> in conclusion, this separation is a nice idea but not we've
Ben> really put the cart before the horse.
It is certainly worth revising the current setup to make core
development more effective, but you're the odd man out, here,
Ben---using Hotmail and Mozilla for mail, for heaven's sake! Of
course you see little benefit from packagization---you don't use the
packages!
Ben> who out there has the time to rearrange the two?
Dunno, but there are definitely possibilities. Steve Youngs is
interested in doing some of this _kind_ of thing (improve the package
system) as beta maintainer, although he may not want to shuffle
packages. We now have two package engineers (Ville and Rendhalver).
And if we don't get those guys to do it, I'll look around.
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