xemacs.spec

cgw> Shouldn't it really be part of the xemacs sources, in etc or cgw> somewhere? Like the Windows installer stuff? I've been thinking about this. I would propose creating a new subdirectory "ports" (to combat Linocentrism). Under that subdirectory would be distro subdirectories (redhat, debian, rpm-vanilla, freebsd, netbsd, mswindows, ...). Then give checkin privileges on those directories to the downstream ports/packages maintainers where they exist. This would give flexibility to the ports maintainers (Debian, for one, has a godwaf'ly big suite of scripts and stuff that they use to manage Emacsen installs). OTOH, we'd be able to see what they're doing. If rpm-vanilla was sufficiently robust, redhat and turbolinux might even be symlinks to it, or use symlinks into it. And because it's all in one separate dedicated place, the division of responsibility is spelled out. Dunno if it's worth going to that much trouble. On the other hand, after the athena3d fiasco, closer relations with the Debian packager can only be good.... -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."