Re: auctex/CHANGES

David Kastrup <dak(a)gnu.org&gt; writes: Another thought aside: upstream by now is at version 11.83 and distributes a precompiled XEmacs package at <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/auctex-11.83-pkg.tar.gz>;. It would probably make sense to take a look at it and model the procedure how the XEmacs team chooses to organize its CVS packaging from there. It does not seem to make too much sense to invest a lot of time into polishing the structure of 11.55 when 11.83 with a working version of preview-latex has been out for almost a year. I think part of the problem why Uwe has not yet been able to complete the transfer to a new version which now includes preview-latex is simply that the CVS repository structure (basically done for version 10.x) and the AUCTeX source structure have drifted apart, and it is becoming increasingly hard for the XEmacs package maintainer to keep what may partly be old cruft stepped up to the new requirements. If somebody with less qualms to throw old structures overboard instead of adapting them took a thorough look at the AUCTeX source tarball as well as the XEmacs package produces upstream, and then tried to come up with a suitable import strategy from scratch, I think that would go a large way towards having a reasonably up-to-date and working AUCTeX version distributed from the XEmacs package CVS in future. I am afraid that slicing this Gordian knot will require somebody firmly acquainted with the XEmacs package CVS tree: it is not really something Uwe could reasonably be expected to do. After reseating the import strategy, hopefully future updates would then be able to proceed without requiring wizard involvement. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum