Re: auctex/CHANGES

Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Given that version 11.55 is 1.5 years old and the next version after it almost a year, it seems appropriate not to talk about "New Features" here. I don't know your rationale for not using the "rawfile" toggle when generating raw files instead of info files, but the upstream distribution clearly generates those files with this option set in order to avoid info-like cross references, replacing them with explicit descriptions where appropriate. If you choose a nonstandard setup for generating those files, leading to different content than that of the main distribution, I find the claim that the completed XEmacs package from the XEmacs CVS tree fully satisfies the GPL condition 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [Options b) and c) are not taken and elided here] The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to control compilation and installation of the executable. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't really think it an appropriate idea to distribute a set of files compiled with different than the standard settings without also distributing the responsible scripts and settings. Since you presumably start with AUCTeX from its distribution tarball, is there anything wrong in just checking in the requisite precompiled files in the same form as they are already in the tarball? That way, no options or scripts of yourself are involved and would warrant distribution, and your files don't differ from those of upstream. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum