Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] AUCTeX 11.84 released

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Uh, the point of the package system is to make people happily accept stagnation? That's how you want the process to work? Ignorance is bliss, sure. But in my book, Emacs is not so much about making people happy as it is about making them productive. Feature set and feature completeness of Emacsen are so widely incongruent that people just don't know what they could _expect_ from Emacs: they make do with whatever magic happens to be available at a given point of time. The package system is reassuring people that they have the newest version of software that is available (at one point of time, it was pretty much impossible to figure out what upstream version a package corresponded to. Nowadays there is a way to ask using `i', but it still is not displayed by default in the package manager). And if they make do with what they honestly believe to be the current state of affairs, that's what you consider a working process? Could you spell out in more detail what needs and expectations of yours are met by providing old packages? Reasonable. It is my personal guess that the easiest way to get a working AUCTeX package would be to scrap what is currently in the XEmacs package tree, check in the files from the binary package we provide upstream, in the right positions for an XEmacs package source tree, and create control files from scratch that install them into the right place in the sumo/package/whatever tree. I'd guess this to be the most feasible way, in particular for someone who has had extensive experience with XEmacs packages. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta