Re: xemacs vs emacs

Reiner Steib writes: I call that support, given that we're hardly doing any more at the moment. We are very grateful for the efforts you do make, and you respond very quickly when XEmacs developers or users have questions or problems. Keeping up-to-date is a non-goal for the core developers. That's one point of the package system, to off-load that onto user-maintainers. In the case of Gnus, that is Mike Kupfer, who is taking his time but definitely not abandoning the packages. In the case of AUCTeX, that is Uwe Brauer with help from Mats Lidell, who have been active recently, but are stuck because we need to make changes to the core to support what they're doing. Also, I will point out to you that in a recent survey (pre-Emacs-22.1) of a large financial firm getting over 200 responses from Emacs-using developers, over half were using obsolete versions of XEmacs or Emacs. What version of Gnus is in Emacs 21? Will the version of Gnus ever change in the lifetime of Emacs 22? How much hope do you have that Emacs 23 will be released in less than 5 years, and how many versions of Gnus will be released in that time? AUCTeX is a special case; the AUCTeX project maintainer objects to the XEmacs package system in principle (although he, and the project, has always been good about supporting XEmacs users of AUCTeX). Unless that changes, or somebody with good knowledge of both projects decides to take over maintainership, that will make working on AUCTeX harder than it could be. The latter could be happening, since Mats Lidell has joined the Review Board. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta