From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:58:38 -0400 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <20020903175838.GA1294@gnu.org> References: <3D728E82.8000808@cox.net> <87ptvxxkoj.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fzwtxad9.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87adn1x705.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874rd7ulio.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8765xnnfkg.fsf@enberg.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031075856 4986 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 17:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 17:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mHvi-0001IA-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:57:34 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA29356; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA29334 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA29330 for turnbull@tux.org; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA29326 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17mHwk-0000jy-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:58:38 -0400 Original-To: Henrik Enberg Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8765xnnfkg.fsf@enberg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1350 gmane.emacs.devel:7398 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7398 On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:33:35PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > There has been a big thread about this on the Debian lists in the last > couple of days. As far as I can tell, the Debian developers have > decided to drop their install-info in favour of the GNU version. I hope so, though I'd be happy if they'd just try to remain compatible. [When I've reported missing features in debian's install-info as bugs (e.g a new option added by GNU install-info), the replies I've gotten have been sort of petulant (`we were first, they have to remain compatible with US!').] -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security.