From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jon Cast Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 16:00:26 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207032100.g63L0Qj22457@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025732338 28219 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2002 21:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 21:38:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Prpy-0007L2-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:38:58 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Prvf-0004Wc-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 23:44:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PrqC-0001C3-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu ([129.15.78.125]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PrF1-0006SX-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ou.edu (jcast@localhost) by d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g63L0Qj22457; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:00:26 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu: jcast owned process doing -bs Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Message from Eli Zaretskii of "Wed, 03 Jul 2002 07:57:35 +0300." Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5423 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5423 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Jon Cast wrote: > > 2. Texinfo does the same thing. > > [...] > > As for 2, I doubt as many people follow Texinfo as follow Emacs > Note that Texinfo was only an example; there are others. > File/Text/Sh-utils, for example. Right, but my understanding is File/Text/Sh-utils have had their interfaces more-or-less constant for basically the entire history of GNU---somebody using v7 Unix could be sent forward in time and use the modern GNU stuff very nearly as efficiently as you or I, and probably wouldn't even notice the difference. People using Emacs 20 definitely noticed when Emacs 21 came out :) So, I still maintain Emacs is the most eagerly followed GNU package, so it's the one where the versioning convention causes the biggest stir. > > that the Texinfo development is as important as Emacs development > IMHO, Texinfo is one of the more important GNU packages. But I > might be biased, since I contribute regularly to its maintenance. I agree about Texinfo's importance. But I doubt the /ongoing development/ of Texinfo impacts as many people as the /ongoing development/ of Emacs. So, fewer people notice which CVS features haven't made it into the latest bugfix. Jon Cast