From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: 26 Aug 2004 09:04:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1B3ACCFD5694A94DBA4E231402B0E9ED2462CA@mucmail1.sdm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093503963 9231 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 07:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: steventamm@mac.com, rms@gnu.org, klaus.berndl@sdm.de, lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, list@dhruva.fastmail.fm Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 09:05:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0EKT-0005gR-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0EP4-0008Ut-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:10:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0EOx-0008Uo-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0EOw-0008SK-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0EOv-0008SB-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0EJm-0000H3-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 67828 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2004 07:03:51 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2004 07:03:51 -0000 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26513 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26513 David Kastrup writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > First of all, they're both GNU Emacs. XEmacs is just as much a later > > > version of GNU Emacs as the FSF-distributed version. > > > > > > It isn't a later version, it it is a fork. > > > > "as much a later version as" is pretty much the same as "fork". > > > > I misread it until now. Now I agree, it is correct, but since it is > > hard to read, clearer wording would be good. > > How about: XEmacs is a descendant of the same GNU Emacs source code > from which the FSF-distributed version is derived. Not much clearer imo. What about: Emacs and XEmacs both descend from the same code base, but development of the two separated many years ago. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk