Re: Several points of interest WRT AUC TeX and preview-latex

Ville> Could you provide more specific pointers, who is working on Ville> exactly what? I'd be really interested to hear more about Ville> this. David is talking hearsay of rumor of whispers. Here's what I know. Steve Youngs is probably authoritative; I can't imagine anything would have happened up to about 6 months ago without consulting him. The package system is split into three fairly independent parts, with three different authors. The run-time pathfinding support is by Mike Sperber. The envisioned changes there AFAIK amount to inverting the type and the package in the packages hierarchy (ie, {etc,lisp}/auctex -> auctex/{etc,lisp}). This will allow "opaque" packages that want to completely manage their internals, with only auto-autoloads and custom-load having fixed locations. (Obviously this isn't suitable for support libraries.) It also will satisfy the current "wanna run packages in-place" RFE. The second part is the build and install mechanism, most importantly, XEmacs.rules. Primary author is Steve Baur, who is not doing any XEmacs development whatsoever at the moment. Secondary, but major, contributions from Jan Vroonhof, Mike Sperber (or was that just tripling the number of DATADIR defines to accomodate JDEzilla?), Steve Youngs, and maybe some others. None of them have any plans for this AFAIK. Adapting this to a new package hierarchy layout would be trivial, because (at least for "opaque apps") you'd just tar up the source tree and slap it down in place. The main changes planned in build'n'install are REQUIRES stuff, which is Jerry James, you, and Rendhalver, so you tell me. ;-) The third part is the package-ui stuff, which has a bunch of authors including Darryl Okahata (package-ui), Pete Ware, Jan V, and Greg Klanderman (package-get). There are lots of proposals for working on these (Steve Y, me, Rendhalver has shown some interest), but nothing concrete. (At least, not since I seem to have lost my "three-layer" transport for packages code. :-( ) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.