Re: I'm an idiot

Lennart> As usually the XEmacs maintainers have confused things by Lennart> not making it clear what is XEmacs specific. There is no We tried. There is a comment there (see below), it just missed the patch context by one line. APA> I like blanket statements like this. They make world such a APA> simple place and win you a lot of friends at the same time. :-( Be that as it may, he's right. Whatever the rights and the wrongs of the GNU Emacs fork, it is not the fault of the upstream package developers and maintainers. If they choose to devote their development efforts to making the package better in some way rather than to maintaining compatibility, that's their prerogative. Of course, then the burden falls on us to maintain our own compatible versions. We must be careful to mark where things diverge. The preceding comment "Wing/Krause change" (which Lennart couldn't see because "diff -U 4" isn't the default) is in the right direction, but insufficient, IMHO. Believe it or not, not everybody knows who Wing and Krause are. :) It doesn't say why or how the change happened. Better is "Wing/Krause change for XEmacs, divergent from upstream" or how about "XEmacs portable path name API, divergent from upstream". I also note that the file header does not note that this version is divergent from the upstream one. We should add a disclaimer to that effect. Maybe This version is modified from the original. It has been formatted to fit your XEmacs screen. The upstream maintainer probably still wants to hear your bug reports and comments, but please note in your report that this is an XEmacs-specific version. Please CC xemacs.org or check there first, as it may be an xemacs-only issue. and add xemacs.org as an alternate bug reporting address. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."