Re: Bob Weiner: Re: efs 1.14 and XEmacs 19.12
Sandy Rutherford (sandy@math.ubc.ca)
Fri, 4 Aug 95 17:17:28 -0700
Bob,
On Wed, 2 Aug 95 you wrote:
> Let me suggest then that you add a target to the EFS makefile which will
> create a UNIX-only distribution and then make that available alongside the
> full EFS distribution.
It exists: make core
On reading the installation instruction over, I agree that the
documentation should be clearer on what make core does. I will fix
this up.
> If this smaller subset were included in XEmacs, it
> should have virtually all the features most users will want, yet should not
> increase the XEmacs distribution size by much.
I have no problem with this. Do you Andy? However, I think that
there should be a prominent note somewhere about where to get the
non-unix support so that people are aware that non-unix support is
part of EFS and can be easily obtained.
If anybody has strong feelings about the above, they should
CC me (or better efs-testers@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com) in their reply. I'm
not on the xemacs-beta mailing list.
Currently, I do not wrap a special non-unix only tar file when we
distribute EFS beta versions. Nobody has ever asked for this and on
the contrary we get lots of requests and comments for non-unix
support.
I note that a non-unix installation of EFS is quite good at divining
the remote system OS and FTP server type and automagically taking any
corrective action needed. It probably has more such information coded
into it than most users possess. For this, we owe thanks to a lot of
people who have helped us out over the past couple of years.
--sandy