Re: elisp packages
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
that it is entirely natural that people would omit including the
packages, even if they are professional GNU software maintainers such
as inhabit Cygnus.
Are you sure that the Cygwin people forgot to put the packages on the
CD? I really cannot believe that.
Also, people who did try to follow the
instructions and use documented interfaces to install packages after
installing the `core' XEmacs often failed (and reverted to 20.4, since
that actually `worked').
>From this point of view, the package system has been an unmitigated disaster.
Frankly I think the package system hasn't had a fair chance yet. Our
communication, QA and maintenance crisis has amplified it weaknesses
while not allowing us to profit from its benefits.
We actually have had a split tarball system for the binaries for ages
and I have seen relatively few complaints about that. The only real
conceptual difference was that the binaries complained loudly if they
couldn't bind the stuff from xemacs-common.
Jan