From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adrian Aichner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnus update Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:29:48 +0200 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3c3p7m6b.fsf@smtpmail.t-online.de> References: <1890.1089689203@newt.com> <2914-Tue13Jul2004070451+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <3589.1089692661@newt.com> <2914-Tue13Jul2004215551+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <861xjfkpgu.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <9003-Wed14Jul2004233535+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <20040714221345.GB27263@fencepost> <86acy1n92r.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090139348 4557 80.91.224.253 (18 Jul 2004 08:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 18 10:29:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bm72b-0005Sw-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bm72b-0000oN-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm75D-0008Dl-Rz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm754-0008Dg-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm753-0008DU-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bm753-0008DR-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bm729-0003OH-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bm727-0006aG-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:28:31 +0200 Original-Received: from pd9590db0.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.89.13.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:28:31 +0200 Original-Received: from adrian by pd9590db0.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:28:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9590db0.dip.t-dialin.net X-Attribution: APA X-Face: 4[iHdXiTu\V3u[~\I)*}#kYF[-tYl3VZga/HSOP|K,{L Rtu@f0y/=O&Cu}\:~d|P$JON?pn?j,&CnPb1z#/TL9bkAJwyol&a:SvYj-VYbM=Dtxhk9 =w|R6U3_;SH&B List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25812 Frank Schmitt writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> How is this going to be managed? After all, Gnus also works for >> XEmacs. > > My impression is that the number of XEmacs users is rapidly > decreasing. Two years ago, the Emacs vs. XEmacs ratio in my favourite > IRC channel was about 50:50. No it's 100:0. OK, perhaps I shouldn't Hi Frank, if your favorite IRC channel is #emacs, then the fluctuation can be explained by the fact that there now is an #xemacs channel as well. > generalize from this, but my guess is that in say 2006, nobody will talk > about XEmacs anymore. You might be overly "optimistic". XEmacs is still getting features added which GNU Emacs is lacking, along from the long-standing XEmacs package system. bignums and modules are just two that come to mind. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian@xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/