>>>> "David" == David Masterson
<David.Masterson(a)synopsys.com> writes:
>>>> Adrian Aichner writes:
>>>> "Michael" == Michael Diers <mdiers(a)elego.de> writes:
Michael> David Masterson <David.Masterson(a)synopsys.com> writes:
>>> Hmmm. Why not just test for XEmacs and set the default
for
>>> clearcase-maintainer-address accordingly?
Michael> I think I'd rather have all bug reports concerning the XEmacs
Michael> package of clearcase.el go to @xemacs.org. We have local
Michael> changes that probably will not show in upstream
Michael> releases. Kevin Esler might not feel responsible for doing
Michael> something about my bugs ;)
> I think you're right, Michael.
David> I already sent this directly to Michael, but, since you
David> also seem interested, I'll repeat it here. His response
David> doesn't seem to answer my basic point which was why not
David> simply set the variable that is already there
David> (clearcase-maintainer-address) to the
xemacs.org address in
David> the XEmacs clearcase package rather than add a new
David> variable? I just don't see a reason to diverge the package
David> from the upstream version anymore than necessary.
I think Michael's solution is a good way to document an
XEmacs-package-specific change.
It will be obvious during syncs with upstream.
> Thanks for your work on this!
David> Definitely agreed, but try to keep Kevin Esler in the loop...
We do that for all XEmacs packages.
It's even in the job description of the "Package Patch Tender" at
http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/jobs.html#package
Adrian
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