Re: Future of XEmacs

Andreas Röhler writes: It's very simple, really. Emacsen are basically tied to GNU APIs and UIs, which are ancient and boring, and aren't attracting young, active developers (even those who use Emacs daily). Most people who work on Emacsen for many years (ie, the backbone developers) are old-style hackers with a strong FSF affiliation, so they chose Emacs and aren't going to move to XEmacs or SXEmacs no matter how good the technology is. Not at all. Technically, it has been repeatedly proved that XEmacs can catch up to GNU very quickly with a much smaller amount of effort applied than the original development took. It's all social/ political. Of who? Me? ;-) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta