Re: Grey Matter
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
~ writes:
> I simply ran the setup program and did specify that I wanted all
> the options. Funny thing but GNU emacs seems to not have this
> problem.
They *can't* have this problem. GNU Emacs doesn't provide a package
system; you get absolutely everything they offer, no less, and no
more. They've seen the light; the next version of GNU Emacs will
provide a package system. My bet is that the one after that will be
similar to XEmacs's (i.e., most applications will be provided
separately), as the burden on developers of bootstrapping a whole
system from scratch has become very large, and will only get larger as
more packages are added.
That's not my bet. Emacs is still on its forward path to providing a
consistent IDE and that means advancing forward on several fronts at
once in a more or less interlocked manner.
There is nothing yet in the packager that would sensibly deal with
version dependencies. I know from AUCTeX that it has been an absolute
pain to provide compatibility with Emacs 20.4(?) APIs because XEmacs has
not bothered keeping up. Lagging 5 to 10 years behind the core
usability because of packages wanting to apply to more than the latest
version of Emacs is a severe brake. At the current level of
sophistication, packaging of core parts will just be useful for letting
various parts bitrot at independent speed.
--
David Kastrup
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