From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GTK file selector Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:37:24 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Message-ID: <87u0d65msr.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1134552456.439fe58850f31@imp5-g19.free.fr> <878xuma53q.fsf@jurta.org> <17313.37186.344268.487103@parhasard.net> <87d5jxsgib.fsf@jurta.org> <17314.42778.220813.47226@parhasard.net> <17315.7877.155144.973236@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85irtoadgf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87lkyk62zc.fsf@marant.org> <85acf0a9zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zmmzoov9.fsf@marant.org> <853bkr92a0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <871x0apnrl.fsf@marant.org> <8564pm5xsd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134927511 20038 80.91.229.2 (18 Dec 2005 17:38:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jérôme Marant , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 18 18:38:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo2U9-0000QB-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:38:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo2Ux-0007Aw-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo2Un-0007An-VX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo2Um-0007AV-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eo2Um-0007AS-AV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.158.98.109] (helo=tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Eo2XY-0006Zq-Sg; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Eo2TM-0008Lb-Vt; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:37:24 +0900 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <8564pm5xsd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:40:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.5-b23 (daikon, 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:48004 Archived-At: >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: David> You are presumably talking about a package system like David> XEmacs' in the use of Emacs. It is wishful thinking to David> assume that its effects on Emacs would be magically David> different than on XEmacs. Exactly! They'd be similar, and similarly beneficial. IMHO YMMV. Overall, your claims about the intent and usage of the XEmacs package system are incorrect, although I'm willing to admit that some of them bear a slight resemblence to AUCTeX reality. I would be happy to support my counterclaim in an appropriate venue, but as far as I know a package system has been vetoed, so emacs-devel isn't it. In the meantime, I hope you will stop posting misinformation about XEmacs's package system. It doesn't do Emacs any good. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.