Re: future of quail
On 2011-02-15, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Julian Bradfield <jcb+xeb(a)jcbradfield.org> writes:
> On 2011-02-15, David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
>> Julian Bradfield <jcb+xeb(a)jcbradfield.org> writes:
>>> Such as distributed closed-source software and charging for licensing?
>> Oh, that's normal with proprietary software licenses? Interesting. So
> Yes. You want to use a widget kit for your proprietary software, you
> go and buy a developers' licence for a proprietary widget set. It will
> allow you to distribute and sell your software under your own terms,
Including complete readable source code for the whole application
including the widget set?
Ah. I've just noticed that we have been at cross-purposes, because I
didn't type what I intended to say. I intended to say "distribut*ing*
closed-source software" - i.e. what closed source libraries give over
GPL is the freedom to distribute your software closed source and for
money. I wasn't talking about what you get in the way of source for
the libraries you're using.
The one thing impressing me immensively is that Stephen is _not_
himself
of the post-war generation and attitude. And still did a remarkable job
reintroducing sanity. Without sacrificing his dignity.
I entirely agree.
Unicode is not exactly trivial. Lots of headstart on Emacs'
site, not
I know. It took me several weeks' work to switch 21.4 to unicode, just
at the basic level. Full Unicode conformance is a *long* way off.
Emacs has pretty solid right-to-left support in the development
I started thinking about bidi, but I don't yet have a significant need
for it. If I ever get round to learning Arabic...
versions, and there are things happening in the area of the Lisp
machine
(parallelism, closures) that are interesting as well. And lots of stuff
Ah, but are they useful.
across the board, and good desktop integration into Gnome desktops,
and
better support for MacOSX and Windows than XEmacs has.
Since I don't use Gnome, MacOSX or Windows, that's not of much concern
to me.
It's knowing what of the "stuff across the board" is actually useful
that I find hard. Like finding out what packages are useful. I know
there are thousands of purportedly useful Emacs packages, but I don't
use any of them.
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