Note, I'm Steve TURNBULL, not Steve BAUR, so this answer is necessarily unofficial. Heiko> Both of the (original) packages contain also files, which Heiko> are special for the Emacs and therefore are currently not Heiko> in the CVS tree of the XEmacs. The question is what should Heiko> I do with these files? Should I put them also in the CVS Heiko> tree and modify the Makefile, so that I'm able to produce Heiko> also a package for the Emacs with it? How do other package Heiko> maintainers handle this? This also happens with my package edict.el. (1) There has been no objection to having FSF compatibility files in the CVS tree. That may be due to nobody realizing it is the case, but I think that highly unlikely since the official policy is to track FSF and maintain compatibility where that does not directly interfere with XEmacs goals and policies. In particular, I have a Makefile.FSF. I think it a bad idea to try to use the same Makefile; the XEmacs package system uses XEmacs.rules to achieve consistency, and there would be danger of conflicts if you tried to make the XEmacs makefile do double duty. (2) I do this because I consider the XEmacs CVS tree to be the official repository for the package. I do maintain a local mirror in my own CVS tree, but that is a backup. If you prefer not to do it that way, you might want to consider a different file organization. But I think this is a good idea, since many XEmacs package maintainers also maintain FSF compatibility; one less headache for compatilibility if all the files are together. (3) Those files _should_ be in the source package, for the reasons given in (2). (4) There is a mechanism for excluding "uninteresting" files (test scaffolding, whatnot) from the binary packages, I believe. But I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. I think that what happens is that the contents of the ELCS make variable get included, and so do EXTRA_SOURCES. This would allow exclusion of specifically FSF-only files. Even if not, I don't think it's a big deal. -- 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 two straight lines for? "Free software rules."