Re: XEmacs support will be discontinued for new Tramp versions
Michael Albinus writes:
(you know, Tramp maintenance is almost a one man show, except the
contributions from Jürgen Hötzel for tramp-adb and tramp-gvfs).
IOW, only one GNU Emacs hacker has jumped in to TRAMP development. ;-)
And yes, I'm well-aware that TRAMP has been a mostly one-man show
since around 1997 (maybe before); I do try to stay on top of who's
doing what in packages that are not maintained in XEmacs core. I know
very well how much extra work is involved in supporting both GNU Emacs
and XEmacsen, even though I don't have time to contribute much to them
directly.
> You also seem to be unaware of some of the syncs that have taken
place
> in XEmacs 21.5 (which is the recommended version for users who are
> willing to report bugs, and don't insist on near bulletproofness):
Maybe. I have always been told that XEmacs 21.4 matters.
It does in the sense that packages must not crash just because you're
running 21.4, but it's end-of-life, and new features can just signal:
`(error 'unimplemented "<feature> not supported in [XEmacs
[21.4]]...")'.
> That sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. I hope the bug
in Mac
> OS X I mentioned above would qualify as "serious"?
Yes. But I won't fix anything proactively, pls report
problems/bugs.
Sure.
And of course, every (S)XEmacs hacker is free to sync with future
Tramp releases. I'm still willing to support such an activity. The
keyword is *support*, not *perform*.
Sounds good to me!
Steve
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