Re: Several points of interest WRT AUC TeX and preview-latex
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:18, David Kastrup wrote:
The package system is not powerful enough to deal with all settings
those packages work under. You might have wildly different TeX
distributions with their own directory components, you have different
GhostScript executable names, you have different ways of adding local
TeX styles and so forth and so on.
How do you suggest that it would be rolled into a XEmacs package then?
There is no package system for GNU Emacs, and I am not abandoning
GNU
Emacs support. Having to cater for a package based install thus is
more work. Either somebody else does it or it does not get done,
period.
Given that you said the package organization is already almost done,
that wouldn't be a big job, I guess. Unfortunately, without a
designated maintainer in XEmacs, the same as has already happened to
auctex may happen to preview-latex. The XEmacs preview-latex (and
auctex) maintainer doesn't have to be you, but we do need someone to
look after them. I have plenty on my plate already. Hands up,
volunteers.
>From what I have heard, the author of the XEmacs package system
is
working on replacing it by yet something different which would then
again make the version taken into GNU Emacs obsolete.
Could you provide more specific pointers, who is working on exactly
what? I'd be really interested to hear more about this.
--
\/ille Skyttä
scop at xemacs.org