Hi Steve
The situation you describe is no news to anyone involved in the XEmacs
project. The project has been in this very state for many years now
with small bursts of activity. Nothing more can be expected from
contributors putting their spare time into a project. Thank you all
for this.
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Several alternative paths have been suggested:
1. Close up shop and release the resources to other projects.
Which resources?
2. Close up shop and move en masse to GNU Emacs development.
Probably not. Those who considered that as an option left a long time
ago.
3. Fork current GNU Emacs, and gradually recreate an XEmacs-
flavored GNU-Emacs-compatible language and editor.
Unrealistic, IMHO. The core features that differentiate XEmacs are
fundamental and developers would presumably have a lot of work ahead
of them recreating these in a fork.
4. Maintain infrastructure as a "caretaker" project,
for the
benefit of continuing users, and in case somebody wants to
pick up the ball.
That'd be my personal preference. Basically just leave it the way it
is. Shout if you need help for keeping life-support going or to tell
us all to fork the repo in case it is taken down.
Perhaps someday a prince will come and kiss Sleeping Beauty.
Cheers
Marcus
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