Re: Bob Weiner: Re: efs 1.14 and XEmacs 19.12
Chuck Thompson (cthomp@cs.uiuc.edu)
Mon, 07 Aug 1995 09:35:09 -0500
Kyle> Yuck. This falls into the category of "Oh God, how have the
Kyle> Emacs maintainers screwed with this package that I love THIS
Kyle> TIME?" I haven't had this feeling much with XEmacs because
Kyle> the maintainers haven't made a habit of distributing twisted
Kyle> and crippled versions of other people's software. Even
Kyle> though Sandy and Andy seem OK with idea, I think that if
Kyle> there's going to be a UNIX-only version of EFS distributed
Kyle> with XEmacs, it ought to have a different name.
I have strived to include all packages unmodified. When changes have
been necessary I work to get them integrated into the standard package
distribution. Changes have, in almost all cases, only been made to
correct portability problems.
This is the way things should continue to be done. I can update every
major package included in XEmacs which has been integrated in this
manner in less than 10 minutes. The ones we include which are still
heavily modified from the "standard" are updated infrequently at best
because it is a major effort to do so.
We need to come up with a light-weight XEmacs distribution. But the
way to do it is not by selectively neutering the various included
packages.
-Chuck