Jan Vroonhof writes: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.emacs as well. > > Dave Love <d.love(a)dl.ac.uk&gt; writes: > > > -- is still expected to happen at some stage (says Handa). Oh, and > > 20.5 should support dynamic loading of object files consistently with > > XEmacs' implementation -- Bill Perry be praised, as always. > > Hmmm.. Somebody is just contributing a whole new DLL support module to > XEmacs. It would be a pity that if for once there is effort going on > to keep the two more or less in line the XEmacs side would screw it > up. If the new method is code, use it. The DLL code is new enough that almost nothing is using it. So this is the time to make radical changes, before historical usage sets everything in stone. RMS would gladly hang a boat anchor around our necks whenever he can, so ignore him. Absolutely do not condition acceptance of code on whether RMS accepts it. XEmacs exists today because people got sick of arguing with him. Forget compatibility with GNU emacs, make it insanely great.