From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?utf-8?q?R=C3=B6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elib -> emacs Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:19:48 +0200 Message-ID: <200706162119.49853.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <200706160029.l5G0Tv318102@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182021321 13777 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 19:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 21:15:18 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 1Hzdjy-0001Wf-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzdjx-0005u2-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzdju-0005tv-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzdjr-0005ti-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzdjr-0005tf-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzdjr-0002LD-5C; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.190.171.32] (helo=karton) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1Hzdjq0LqR-0008F8; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:15:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 In-Reply-To: <200706160029.l5G0Tv318102@f7.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19DvU6JqAkyknkjpN1qbPMS7vtASTvIyMj3pA2 j1zGPbBO4eR36J6R36Ze4FeK05OD+9zMvEwkeXO6WLZpjJ+kEl 2gq226Av0/TlYnsvTxE8w== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:73104 Archived-At: Am Samstag, 16. Juni 2007 02:29 schrieb Karl Berry: > Years ago, there was a package "elib" which aimed to provide generic > functionality beyond that in Emacs itself. The last release was in > 1995, and is at ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/emacs/elib-1.0.tar.gz. > > The elib maintainers (Inge Wallin and Per Cederqvist) are (obviously) > not working on it any more. They suggested that much of what was in > elib is now in Emacs, but don't keep up with current Emacs developments, > so can't easily check if there is anything in elib which should be moved > into Emacs. > > Could someone here please take a look at that elib tarball and see if > there is anything in there that could still be useful in Emacs? > > Thanks, > Karl > For me it doesn't seem a good idea to drop elib.el, unless it's proven buggy. You may re-view `string-replace-match' for example as `dired-string-replace-match', slightly changed. However, with this new name, it's not as easy detected as the original function. Just checked `string-replace-match': it works fine. Too other programs may rely on elib.el as emacspeak does: http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/lisp/elib-readme says: This directory includes stack-f.el and string.el from Elib 1.0. Regards, Andreas Roehler