Re: Bob Weiner: Re: efs 1.14 and XEmacs 19.12

Andy Norman (ange@otter.hpl.hp.com)
Sat, 05 Aug 1995 23:23:48 +0000 

Kyle writes:

> Yuck.  This falls into the category of "Oh God, how have the
> Emacs maintainers screwed with this package that I love THIS
> TIME?"  I haven't had this feeling much with XEmacs because the
> maintainers haven't made a habit of distributing twisted and
> crippled versions of other people's software.  Even though Sandy
> and Andy seem OK with idea

Actually, I'm pretty uncomfortable with this, but haven't really had the spare
time to reply up to now.

When RMS took ange-ftp and "tree" dired into Emacs 19, he made a lot of extra
work for me since I had to explain to each bug-reporter why their favorite
feature or package now didn't work.

We could always have a vote amongst the beta testers.  If more thumbs down
than thumbs up, efs stays separate.  ;-)

> I think that if there's going to be a UNIX-only version of EFS distributed
> with XEmacs, it ought to have a different name.

How about efs-lite?  ;-)
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