Re: `~/.xemacs/{init,.options}.el' (Was: Re: [XEmacs] New Maintainer, soonish.)
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
karlheg(a)cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
...
> I don't think it's a major change. It's a small
patch. It's not
> complicated.
Has it occurred to you that you could be wrong?
I will add that some of our most bitter flame wars have been over
single line patches, for example, the single line patch to screw up
the delete key.
...
Jan> Note that the issues here are _not_ easy to solve (you do
Jan> know that what you describe was in the XEmacs betas once and
Jan> was taken out again, do you?).
>
> Yes... I missed the `why' part. Why was it taken out?
Partly because noone could think of a good migration path.
Exactly. We have not figured out a way to not make it suck. If you
put it into Debian-XEmacs we will have the situation we have been
trying to avoid -- multiple highly incompatible flavors of XEmacs.
I hope we can make it work as the current situation is suboptimal, but
please reconsider your decision on this.
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