include SUMO? (was: My XEmacs can't find its packages)

Uwe Brauer writes: I think it is very unlikely that the SUMO will be *included* in the source distribution. Among other things, even if we default to --with-mule, as recently suggested, many users will not want the Mule SUMO. So, instead a few facilities needed for bootstrapping will be included, enough to reliably download and install the SUMO(s) upon request. The problem in the past has been a lack of reliable transport. FTP is unreliable because many hosts (including but not limited to ftp.xemacs.org) seem to be unable to configure their FTP servers reliably, while XEmacs itself does not have an efficient, reliable HTTP client, and the package system itself sort of assumes it can use EFS to fetch packages. w3.el and url.el have not been all that great. However, at this point, most systems of interest have wget or curl, so we can probably do something about that. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta