Re: divorce.el

SL Baur writes: There are an awful lot of useful goodies out there in Elisp-land. I'm thinking of things like globrep.el, follow.el, auto-revert.el, etc. All of these things would be sensible candidates for the package system, because they are all things that are potentially useful. Even the eperiodic.el thingy `that got mentioned on the list today. If we packaged "eperiodic" with XEmacs, we'd be the first editor (AFAICT) that had support for a built-in periodic table. We *could* be the first to have that feature but does that mean that we *should*? I can't imagine anyone ever availing themselves of divorce.el. I'd bet good money that the intersection of the sets "xemacs users", "people living in countries where divorce by email is legal", and "people who are actually looking to get a divorce" is the empty set! It may be a tiny bit funny as a joke, but I hope that good sense prevails and it doesn't make it's way into the packages. We've got a busted etags.el, screwed-up syntax tables, coding-system confusion, funky buffer-tabs, a semi-functional GTK port, etc, etc, etc, and people are wasting time adding features like divorce-by-email? I mean, I know its a volunteer project and people will do as they please - you can't give orders to volunteers - but I can think of a lot more useful ways to spend time than this kind of tomfoolery. Oh, and by the way, speaking of pointless features, in addition to being 3 year old news, the "coffee.el" link on xemacs.org points to 403-land. Can we please drop that silly news item from the website? -Charles PS. I wish I had more time to devote to XEmacs hacking! I changed jobs a few months back and am finding myself with a lot less time for doing this stuff :-(