Am 28.07.2012 04:31, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
Andreas Röhler writes:
> Why GNU Emacs got that many contributions and XEmacs didn't - at
> least in relation?
It's very simple, really. Emacsen are basically tied to GNU APIs and
UIs, which are ancient and boring, and aren't attracting young, active
developers (even those who use Emacs daily). Most people who work on
Emacsen for many years (ie, the backbone developers) are old-style
hackers with a strong FSF affiliation, so they chose Emacs and aren't
going to move to XEmacs or SXEmacs no matter how good the technology
is.
> AFAIU its a technical question basically.
Not at all. Technically, it has been repeatedly proved that XEmacs
can catch up to GNU very quickly with a much smaller amount of effort
applied than the original development took. It's all social/
political.
> It's not about contributions, but about getting rid...
Of who? Me? ;-)
No, pointed at a technical issue.
While at GNU Emacs people are implementing new features and fixing bugs, at XEmacs
considerable energies seem consumed by dealing with packages.
The backside of this its-already-all-done-for-you approach, which packages seems to
implement, outweights its benefits.
Don't think packages have been a bad idea from the very beginning. For now however,
experienced the result of it's implementation for years, it's definitly time to
discuss it.
Please let people write and load code as easy as with GNU Emacs.
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