From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net?
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 15:38:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxw0gxl0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B30A326-3575-409D-B989-7D981A845C8D@gmail.com>
David Reitter writes:
> In my experience, binary distributions are not necessarily
> productive in that sense.
But remember that an Emacs "binary" distribution usually contains
source Lisp[1], and coding Lisp is the most productive way for
newcomers to contribute (and some oldtimers, too, hello Drew! :-)
Even if they've never done it before; the Emacs C code is full of
strange constructs like DEFUN and redisplay and Mule and GCPRO, and
even experienced C hackers can get turned around in it.
Footnotes:
[1] I was disgusted to discover that Ubuntu packages for my Sharp
Netwalker don't contain source for XEmacs core Lisp.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-16 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 13:40 The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-14 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-14 22:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-15 20:27 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-15 21:51 ` David Reitter
2010-05-16 6:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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