Re: Unicode and xemacs

Ville Skyttä writes: Ville, nothing personal, but nobody has recommended that anybody distribute 21.5. We tell individual users in certain circumstances (Mule on Windows, Xft, etc) to use it, but that implies a level of sophistication way above what yum requires. I don't want *any* reports on alpha-quality code in Mule and Xft from people who cannot build XEmacs themselves; we don't have time---right now the project has only one active core developer (and that's Aidan, not me). Obviously many users who sure can build XEmacs themselves will use the packaged version for convenience, but the average quality of report is surely going to be much lower than from the DIY crowd. If you want to distribute, you are going to have to answer for your patches and your site-start, just as any user has to answer for his patches and init file. Fedora users should go to Fedora *first*, SuSE users should go to SuSE *first*, and so on, because we can't answer questions about code we can't see. What do I mean by "answer for"? How about we create a repository for packaging, say etc/distros/{fedora-core,suse,debian,gentoo,mandriva, freebsd,macports,...}, which you distro-based maintainers can update with your packaging meta-data and patches? I know Debian has its patch file which creates the ./debian directory etc, I suppose you must have a metadata format for organizing each package. Just shlep it in, commit, and tag with your package version. Of course this wouldn't be distributed in tarballs, and it should be a separate repo (eg, in the XEmacs packages tree). Then when I get a report from a Fedora user, I can check out the relevant patches to see what they're using; if there's no tag for that rpm, *then* I'll send them to you. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta