Re: include SUMO?
Den 11-08-03 11.37, Stephen J. Turnbull skrev:
Uwe Brauer writes:
> Sorry I am jumping late in this discussion. But I also would
> find it convenient if SUMO were included already in the
> source distribution,
I think it is very unlikely that the SUMO will be *included* in the
source distribution. Among other things, even if we default to
--with-mule, as recently suggested, many users will not want the Mule
SUMO.
I hit the same problem Alan did. It actually made me give up on XEmacs on the
Mac, temporarily, until I saw Alan's post. MacPorts and Fink only have 21.4,
which is not compelling.
How is Mule relevant for 21.5? I hope you're not going to waste time on 21.4
distribution mechanics, when that time would IMHO be better spent towards
getting 21.5 promoted to stable.
+1 on sumo included with the 21.5+ sources. Why would anyone ever want to
install XEmacs without full packages? Developers, I would think, don't use the
archives but a version control working copy. Okay, non-developers could
conceivably upgrade the executable without touching packages, but an alternate
make target for installing w/o packages could cover that use case.
So, instead a few facilities needed for bootstrapping will be
included, enough to reliably download and install the SUMO(s) upon
request.
The problem in the past has been a lack of reliable transport.
The user already solved that problem once, in downloading the source archive.
Better to take advantage of that.
regards, Anders
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