[VETO] old ws -- packages, define-behavior

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber <sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

    ms> No, you're right.  Did it slow down the rate of progress as
    ms> compared to one or two really impatient developers just
    ms> hacking it (who did/do exist with FreeBSD.)

Sure.  But Ben does have a number of redeeming features here; in
particular, I have been able to reconstruct from his comments, notes
in Architecting XEmacs, and Internals stuff pretty much all of his
code that I've studied.  Sure, the traditional way to get the
documentation function (including patch-splitting and ChangeLog
writing) done is to force the responsible developers to do it
themselves, but there are other ways.

    ms> You bet.  That's the price for a well-oiled community where
    ms> lots of people work on the same code.

Emacs doesn't seem to work that way; again there are other ways of
doing it.

Yes, the traditional way is a good way, but I don't see anybody here
being particularly good about it.  We need to be flexible about this,
I think.


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