From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should xemacs feature test be removed from url package? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:42:06 +0200 Message-ID: <85fyrrc8qp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127803689 2854 80.91.229.2 (27 Sep 2005 06:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 27 08:48:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EK9Fw-00047I-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:48:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EK9Fv-0001xd-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EK9Bi-0000aZ-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EK9Bf-0000Zi-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EK9Bc-0000X0-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EK9Ad-0003id-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EK9Ab-00030l-Fs; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BEFD21C4CE11; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:42:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Cheng Gao In-Reply-To: (Cheng Gao's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:16:12 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43280 Archived-At: Cheng Gao writes: > *On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:55:16 -0400 > * "Richard M. Stallman" 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