Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] AUCTeX 11.84 released

David> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Hello Since I am the person in charge (still) a couple of comments to the best of my knowledge. David> Well, I'd say the problem is that you are trying to modify David> the existing decades-old AUCTeX packaging in your tree to David> match the new requirements. That is my understanding of how the XEmacs package system works. I really can't judge since I don't feel qualified but that is what I have been told by the experts on that issue. This process however turned out to be complicated. The Auctex team has changed, quite drastically, the way of compilation. I presume the reason for this is the inclusion of the preview package. While I failed to compile it into the official XEmacs package tree in the time I had, I am somehow relieved to see, that persons like Stephen Turnbull had similar difficulties. Now I must add a technical question, David. I have only very briefly followed the discussions on the Auctex mailing list. But is it correct that you are planning also to include reftex into auctex? If so, that might lead to a change of the installation process? When is this going to be happen? David> That's just a bunch of unnecessary work. Just cut out the David> history. Let the AUCTeX Makefile build an XEmacs package David> tree (or a finished binary package): this generates all the David> necessary startup files with all the necessary relative David> paths. Then go backwards from the finished binary package, David> dissecting it into your source tree arrangement. David> All the files are there then. You just need to arrange them David> in your source tree order before the scripts compiling and David> copying them are run, and are finished. Are you _really_ sure of this David? I am not and that is why I try to follow the way the XEmacs package system requires things to be done. I think so. I would estimate about several days of work and unfortunately I had not the time for that and I must add no _other_ volunteers (besides Stephen) showed interest. [snip] David> Yup, what I said: XEmacs developers _will_ deny that anybody is David> interested in AUCTeX. To be fair I have not seen a overwhelming amount of calls for the upgrade. From time to time that subject appears in the list, right but not more. There might be an other reason for this. Auctex is now a *very* mature product. Yes I know it still gets improved but I guess for a lot of users it is satisfactory what it offers . I can tell from talks I had with my colleagues that some of them even are satisfied with, in my eyes, inferior products such as winedit and kile. Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta