Re: Fwd: sign off on XEmacs 21.5
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Mats Lidell writes:
> I would welcome an improvement in the package system so that third
> party packages could be distributed outside of the official XEmacs
> Packages much in the way like PORTDIR_OVERLAY works in gentoo or "DAG
> RPM Repository" works for Red Hat.
"Distribution" of standalone packages outside of the packages is
already possible, as VM and AUCTeX have proved.
"packages" in quotes or tarballs according to the terminology you demand
from others.
What people seem to want to avoid is the use of the build
infrastructure. In theory it should be possible to do
[...]
and an XEmacs package will show up shortly in your staging
directory.
But of course nobody has ever been willing to test it out.
I am sure that Uwe (for example) would have been quite willing to test
it out if you had bothered to mention this years ago.
It is little details like that which make working for XEmacs so
gratifying. You get required information years after you need it with a
"Doh".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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