Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release.
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:25:29 +0900, "Stephen J.
Turnbull"
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> Off-topic for emacs-devel. emacs-devel squelched.
> Uwe Brauer writes:
>> I wish [...] that there existed a debian-like-alien tool which
>> allowed to convert one package into another one, like deb-->rpm
> This is a red herring. The issue of what XEmacs distributes is
> entirely the build environment.
Well may be, but I still feel it is a waste of resources to a
extend that the auctex team has developed its own Makefile
to generate a xemacs pkg, and we cannot use it!
It can be used for verification. As long as the upstream XEmacs package
_does_ work, you can't go wrong much by tweaking the XEmacs packaging
mechanism until it comes up with the same results.
been slower. The actual version is 11.86, xemacs pkg
version is 11.85. I did not upgrade because I was too lazy,
did not see any request in the mailing list.., whatever excuse
I can make.
I think there also was some delay due to AUCTeX switching to GPLv3+ and
XEmacs not being compatible with that at the time.
In any case although this is my fault I don't think this
difference is very dramatic, but I feel obliged to upgrade
in order to avoid that some day the auctex team decides to
drop xemacs support all together
The problem is more that I don't know anybody from the "AUCTeX team"
actively using or even checking XEmacs support, so there is a non-zero
probability that it will silently cease working at some point of time,
either due to AUCTeX changes or due to XEmacs changes.
--
David Kastrup
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