Re: Future AUCTeX distribution

Uwe> It is most unfortunate that xemacs, ui, pui does not manage Uwe> 3rd party pkg, as does dkpg and rpm. Nope, it has nothing to do with "fortune"---it's by design. pui is about helping XEmacs volunteers provide consistent support for packages we distribute. The burden of being pui-compatible on most 3rd parties is either 100MB of disk space for the package tree and a few minutes to update CVS before distributing a new binary package, or less than 100KB of space and at most a couple hours figuring out how to get all the infrastructure into the right place relative to your source. If somebody wanted to get this right and make it more convenient, I'm sure XEmacs people would be willing to help with it, but 3rd party developers and users prefer to wait for somebody else to do it. This is all irrelevant to AUCTeX; AUCTeX is not "most 3rd parties", or at least it wasn't in the last public release. If it's now possible to release a binary package of AUCTeX, then things have changed a lot. Nevertheless, I don't think it's appropriate to put a package built by a non-XEmacs process into our FTP site; that would implicitly be a promise that it will interact correctly with our tools, and would require us to keep track of whether that package continued to work with any future changes in the package infrastructure. That's not our job IMO. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.