Re: packages with binaries
On 2012-02-03, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
thing is, some of the issues (motion and display -- I wouldn't
be
surprised if the message history buffer is one of them) I see are due
to Mike Sperber screwing up window configurations[1], and other core
changes, whose impact is hard to understand (partly because the XEmacs
side changes are subtle, and partly ... er, well, I've ranted enough,
you can see where this is going :-P). I don't want to complain, have
the VM people apply a superficial fix, and then yank the rug out from
under them because it's really a core issue after all.
Ah. Yes. In fact, 21.5's inability to combine with VM was essentially
the reason I stopped using 21.5, and therefore also the only reason I
spent months unicodifying 21.4! A bit disproportionate, perhaps...
Mike did post a patch here for one of the major problems five years
ago, but it never got into the vm upstream source. I mentioned it in a
bug track recently, but I'll check and see whether it's been included
now.
> Using VM trunk under XEmacs is courageous, in the Yes, Minister
sense,
> I think...
That's a new idiom on me, although I can sort of guess what it means.
"Yes, Minister" was a 1980s British comedy series. Well worth getting
if you enjoy satire of the body politic. "Courageous" is the word used
by the civil servant to the minister to mean "will lose you the next
election". It's now an established idiom in Britain.
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