Bundle XEmacs package distro for GNU Emacs? [was: MacOS?]
Rodney Sparapani writes:
Wow! This is fantastic. They seem to work perfectly. Has there
been
any thought of making a distro for Emacs?
Well, in one sense there already two: the CVS "packages" module, and
the sumo tarballs + "find /path/to/packages -name '*.elc' -exec rm
\{\}".
It is up to individual maintainers whether they accept bug reports
from GNU Emacs users. I would encourage that, but I see no reason why
we should do anything more. That is, I predict it will not be
appreciated, let alone reciprocated, by GNU Emacs.[1]
David, what do you think?
AFAICT, it would only take minor changes. For example, the
byte-compiled files would not be distributed, or something like
that.
Volunteers welcome; we would be happy to provide a primary
distribution point for it, and bug reporting redirection to the
maintainer.
Footnotes:
[1] GNU Emacs will of course continue making its contribution to the
world at large, including XEmacs without limitation. But that's
unilateral, not reciprocal.
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