Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release.
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:24:50 +0100, David Kastrup
<dak(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Tassilo Horn <tsdh(a)gnu.org> writes:
[snip]
Now XEmacs will only distribute package files that have been
assembled
by XEmacs tools in the XEmacs package tree.
This is correct. I wish it were
different, that there
existed a debian-like-alien tool which allowed to convert
one package into another one, like deb-->rpm
So the XEmacs packages that AUCTeX provides will work
fine, but you'll have to find, download and install
them manually instead of relying on the XEmacs
packaging system.
You can unpack it in ~/.xemacs/packages
or in
prefix/xemacs/site-packages
What will be provided in the XEmacs package
repositories consequently is something massaged
manually to the necessary layout, commonly with
mistakes and several years behind.
Well if their package manager were faster it should be a
question of days not years :'(
[snip]
The XEmacs compatibility code in the Lisp files itself is peanuts in
comparison. No point in removing that as far as I can see. However,
preview-latex has a somewhat more extensive compatibility setup. It
would be arguable not to place the prv-xemacs.el files in the ELPA
packaging at least.
That is your call to make.
Removing it from the source distribution would be
seriously unfair since it is technically complex enough that starting it
from scratch would be quite hard: that would be several man-months at
least from an experienced XEmacs programmer, and there are none as far
as I can see interested in AUCTeX.
Yes, please, do *not* remove it, that would be real nightmare
for Xemacs users.
Uwe Brauer
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