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

Olivier Galibert writes: Hey, that applies to distributing XEmacs itself. Shouldn't we just stop? I don't think so. AUCTeX is free software. Uwe Brauer, who maintains the XEmacs package of AUCTeX, values an XEmacs package enough to do the work and put up with both me and David Kastrup (who has publically insulted Uwe on a number of occasions). I personally use the XEmacs package of AUCTeX because it's all I need to use. That proves that some XEmacs users and contributors get positive value from the package version. As we've seen with ESS, users notice when a package disappears. Some are just as happy to go upstream, but others experience a noticeable inconvenience. I suspect that we'd see a lot more of the latter with AUCTeX than we did with ESS, though I can't prove it. If Uwe decides to quit, then I think it's reasonable to consider dropping AUCTeX from the XEmacs packages distribution (but not yet a no-brainer). Or if *you* have a different opinion about what is good for XEmacs users, we should discuss that. But "David Kastrup doesn't like it" is a non-starter for me. David has made it plain that XEmacs goals are none of his business, and that he believe his only duty to XEmacs is to tell us what our users need. I see no reason to do anything other than reciprocate in not caring about David's goals for AUCTeX. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta