From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Frank Schmitt <ich@frank-schmitt.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sending attachments
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:42:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skgxi6gt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tz1dstbs.fsf@mid.gehheimdienst.de>
Frank Schmitt writes:
> Is XEmacs compatibility really worth the trouble? How many XEmacs users
> are still out there?
First, XEmacs compatibility is not usually that great a burden.
Certainly, when you're trying to support bleeding edge features (viz.
preview-latex), you run into problems. But mostly the work is already
done, and with a few exceptions where XEmacs led Emacs by 5 to 10
years in introducing an API and Emacs deliberately varied, we do
(eventually) sync by adding the feature with the Emacs-style APIs.
Second, there are still plenty of XEmacs and SXEmacs users to justify
*keeping* existing features. Several GNU/Linux distros have tried to
drop XEmacs packages or deemphasize them in one way or another, and
gotten *strong* pushback from their users. XEmacs also still has a
strong following in two large companies that I know of, I believe
because they consider it much easier to maintain local extensions to
XEmacs. They don't even try with Emacs. I have to think that there
are a lot of such users out there, who probably don't participate much
in free software channels, they just use it.
There's also the question of *contributors* vs. users. XEmacs (and
even more so, SXEmacs) contributors have been quite loyal, due to the
large investment required to work on internals of any Emacsen. So
making XEmacs less usable would quite likely result in a loss of
developers to the entire community rather than a flow of developers to
Emacs proper.
Anyway, the question is if merging Gnus code into Emacs would result
in a purge of XEmacs compatibility code. Sometimes Richard uses
expressions that suggest that might happen, but AFAICT his opinion on
the matter is that he thinks mixing XEmacs compatibility code with
application implementation is unclean, and he advocates *separating*
them out. Of course if XEmacs compatibility modules are not going to
be maintained, he prefers them to be dropped, and I'm sure he'd prefer
that the effort be devoted to Emacs proper -- but after all, that's
the contributor's choice.
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Thread overview: 167+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-01 19:47 Sending attachments Richard Stallman
2009-07-01 19:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-05 0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 21:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-11 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 15:04 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-11 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-12 10:11 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-13 12:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-14 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-14 13:10 ` Leo
2009-07-14 13:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-15 16:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-15 18:18 ` Frank Schmitt
2009-07-16 4:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-07-16 5:19 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-16 14:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-15 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-16 16:17 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-16 18:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-17 12:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-19 0:55 ` Mike Kupfer
2009-07-16 1:10 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-16 5:30 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-19 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-16 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-17 13:30 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-17 18:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-18 17:11 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-18 19:15 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el (was: Sending attachments) Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 5:30 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el Stefan Monnier
2009-07-19 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-20 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 18:26 ` Bastien
2009-07-20 18:45 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-21 14:41 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 18:10 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el (was: Sending attachments) Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 23:22 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-22 21:57 ` Kevin Ryde
2009-07-18 17:11 ` Sending attachments Richard Stallman
2009-07-14 16:17 ` Jonathan Rockway
2009-07-14 18:33 ` Bastien
2009-07-14 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-16 1:11 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-16 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 22:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-07 9:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-01 23:34 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-02 19:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-03 2:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-03 7:44 ` message-mode / mail-mode (was: Sending attachments) Teemu Likonen
2009-07-03 8:43 ` message-mode / mail-mode Miles Bader
2009-07-03 8:55 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-03 9:07 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-05 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 6:45 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-11 10:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-02 1:01 ` Sending attachments Robert J. Chassell
2009-07-02 13:39 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-02 14:33 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-02 16:40 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-04 14:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2009-07-04 15:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-02 17:26 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-03 13:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-03 14:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-05 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-06 16:07 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-07 10:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-07 12:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-08 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-08 9:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-08 18:34 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-08 20:36 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-09 11:53 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-08 11:41 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-08 13:41 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-08 14:16 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-08 14:27 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-08 14:40 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-08 15:09 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-09 2:47 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-09 11:54 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-09 20:43 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-10 6:39 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-10 9:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-10 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-10 11:55 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-11 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-10 12:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-11 18:29 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-10 9:17 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-08 19:07 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-09 11:54 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-09 20:47 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-08 19:08 ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-07 12:48 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-06 16:16 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-07 10:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-03 17:37 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-03 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-04 15:11 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-04 15:54 ` Leo
2009-07-05 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-06 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-07 1:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-07 3:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-07 4:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-07 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-11 18:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-11 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-07 9:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-07 10:11 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-07 13:53 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-07 10:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-07 13:49 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-08 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-10 13:29 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-11 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-15 21:51 ` Reducing Gnus dependencies in message.el (was: Sending attachments) Reiner Steib
2009-07-03 14:21 ` Sending attachments Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-04 15:33 ` Chad Brown
2009-07-04 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-04 17:08 ` Chad Brown
2009-07-05 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 1:40 ` Daniel Pittman
2009-07-05 2:39 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-05 3:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-05 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 20:44 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 3:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 4:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 22:35 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-07 0:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-07 9:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-08 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-11 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 6:37 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-06 7:47 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 14:13 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-06 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-07 5:57 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-11 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-11 19:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-12 3:05 ` Leo
2009-07-12 3:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-13 12:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-15 9:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-15 11:44 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-15 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-05 22:56 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-06 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 8:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-05 8:30 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-05 20:05 ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-07-05 20:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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