From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b1qg358.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179754006 18055 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 13:26:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 15:26:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hq7uH-0000jo-U7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:26:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7uH-0002uw-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7sS-0000Ia-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7sR-0000IF-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7sR-0000I8-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq7sR-0005JJ-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq7sN-0000qV-FB; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <853b1qg358.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:24:35 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71505 Archived-At: Please take a look at how the XEmacs package system works. It has a central repository. It tends to distribute outdated or non-working code because the people maintaining the central server tend to be not the same creating the packages. You previously explained that this is because making the XEmacs package requires doing substantial work on the code. We are moving to reduce to zero the amount of "packaging" required. All that would be necessary is to install the new version in the standard repository. Since this is easy, people would do it often. We could even let the maintainers of the package itself do so.