Re: [Bug: 21.5-b23] bug in font-create-object on carbon xemacs

Thomas> Too bad---I had seen that there were some serious Thomas> disagreements between Andrew Choi and the xemacs devs. I'm actually unaware of any disagreement except over the legal requirements we've inherited from GNU. We've never touched any of his code, just restored the GPL notices to files that are clearly derivative of GPL code, that we are legally required to attach to the GPL code we distribute. I thought we'd worked around that, by agreeing to distribute his tarballs as is and provide pointers to them in the relevant files, but he didn't like it when he saw it. :-( Thomas> But it's a bit hopeless since I'm stuck in a triangle between Thomas> xemacs, auctex, and Andrew Choi. I sympathize; there are a number of people who would like to be able to use Carbon XEmacs. I will be getting in touch with Andrew again soon, but a distribution agreement that satisfies both Andrew's requirements and my legal paranoia is not something you should hold your breath waiting for. If that doesn't work out, well, I definitely want a Carbon port, and so do some people who might even contribute some code. But that will take several months if we can't use Andrew's code. Carbon (GNU) Emacs seems to work well for a lot of people, and it's rather likely that AUCTeX will work better with any GNU Emacs than with XEmacs at the present time, as the AUCTeX core developers all prefer GNU Emacs as far as I know. -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Economics of Information Communication and Computation Systems Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory