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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should xemacs feature test be removed from url package?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fyrrc8qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uwtl3jj43.fsf@news.eqiao.com> (Cheng Gao's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:16:12 +0800")

Cheng Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> writes:

> *On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:55:16 -0400
> * "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> climbed out of the dark hell and cried out:
>
>> 	Richard> Are the developers of the URL package still maintaining it
>> 	Richard> separately?
>>
>>     Seems not.
>>
>> If that is the case, the only reason to maintain XEmacs conditionals
>> in URL is if XEmacs developers want to cooperate with us on
>> maintaining that code.
>
> Xemacs does not include URL package. It has only W3 package in its
> package system, which is last version of W3 (p4.0pre.47).
>
> After moving to Savannah, URL was split from W3 as a separate project.
> And then it's included in Emacs CVS. And W3 project in Savannah does not
> contain URL files anymore.

Sounds like a total mess for XEmacs developers any which way.  Unless
some XEmacs developer volunteers maintaining for the XEmacs parts, it
is not likely to be much of a help keeping them.  How about tagging
the current state with something like url_with_xemacs, then moving
XEmacs support out?  In that way, if some XEmacs developer ever
volunteers to take it up at some time, he can just work on remerging
the branches.

I think that seems like a saner approach than letting the support
remain in head with an unknown and rotting state of functionality for
XEmacs.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-25 17:54 Should xemacs feature test be removed from url package? CHENG Gao
2005-09-26  4:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-26  5:04   ` Cheng Gao
2005-09-26  5:14     ` David Kastrup
2005-09-26 23:55       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-26 23:55     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-27  3:16       ` Cheng Gao
2005-09-27  6:42         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-09-27 15:43           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-27 21:58         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-10 23:47         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-13 16:07           ` CHENG Gao
2005-09-26 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier

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