>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
Jan> Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com> writes: >> [2] the xemacs vc is quite
Jan> divergent with the fsf's. it is based on a much >> earlier
Jan> vc but has a bunch of improvements. i'm not quite sure what
Jan> they are. >> for this reason, people haven't thrown out the
Jan> xemacs vc and replaced it with >> fsf.
Jan> This is wrong. We (Steve and later me) did the throw out
Jan> thing in XEmacs 20.3 (The old version is in the vc-cc
Jan> package). I have intentionally kept our version as close to
Jan> the FSF version as possible. In addition all the differences
Jan> are clearly marked as such in the code.
Jan> When contacted about merging our stuff back in Andre Spiegel,
Jan> the FSF maintainer, said he is currently rewriting vc.el from
Jan> scratch to be more modular and at that moment (11/1999) it
Jan> would be a waste of effort to merge our stuff in (he did
Jan> merge Kyrills NT fixes). He promised to contact me near the
Jan> end so we could make a version that worked on both
Jan> Emacsen. At that point it should also be much easier to add
Jan> clear-case support back in.
This sounds good!
Do you know Rod Whitby and/or his recent work in
http://rwhitby.hplx.net/vc-clearcase.html
?
The ClearCase support in that version works fine in native NT XEmacs.
Are you still waiting for Andre Spiegel to get back to you?
Would it be a bad idea if I tried merging
http://rwhitby.hplx.net/vc-clearcase.html
into emacs-20.6/lisp/vc*.el?
Do you know whether FSF/Andre would refuse to incorporate ClearCase
support into their version?
Will the vc-cc package become obsolete once the vc package is merged
with latest GNU Emacs's vc and clearcase support is added?
Best regards,
Adrian
Jan> Because of this I have refrained from active work on our vc.el and
Jan> major syncing. However everything apart from cvs-annotate the more
Jan> advanced stuff in cvs-dired should work.
Jan> Jan