Re: XEmacs, clearcase mode problem

This really ought to be done in the core. I believe that much of this is already done internally in XEmacs although new bugs keep cropping up. But I don't know how much of what (eg) clearcase and JDE need is already implemented internally. There are two main problems that I can see. First is that Cygwin is a moving target. They keep making minor adjustments, some of which affect some packages and others affect others. This means that the various packages have evolved different, and given the inherent ambiguity involved in having two completely different namespaces used simultaneously, possibly incompatible conventions. Straightening that out is going to require somebody who cares enough to collect and collate those conventions. Second, people are going to want this to be portable to GNU Emacs as well. Given the absolute lack of success of multiple attempts to cooperate on API design and implementation, I would say that if you want projects like JDE to make the effort to change, you're going to need to get the Gnu to sign up for it first. Then maybe we can all adopt whatever they decide to do. -- 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.