From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carsten Dominik Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.auctex.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87mz554e1u.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167497294 27939 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 16:48:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 17:48:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0hNU-0007yM-0X for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:48:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0hNT-0002gJ-EB for gead-auctex-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0hNN-0002dd-Kc for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0hNK-0002at-VG for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:48:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0hNK-0002ah-S7 for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.174] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0hNK-0001jr-CY for auctex-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so5118583ugf for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:48:01 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Ygng6p9Hh1WUkZfWKpmXYBtOmh9hAmsaEdWQKeQ9ffeFWnsihvGrVgjGPpmoLZ6SMRmGQKCm0R/JlS93S2COeixYq5+IeuGZJ7iWPlTSZKHyNsuWKKdpRmV9N7Zf4uv8AjFLx1z4zwcqw2RLCbKDIMSZZaj2ktmRyDvJvOgTavA= Original-Received: by 10.66.216.1 with SMTP id o1mr22668124ugg.1167497281235; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:48:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [81.70.211.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id u1sm15376306uge.2006.12.30.08.48.00; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:48:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) X-BeenThere: auctex-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion list for AUCTeX developers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: auctex-devel-bounces+gead-auctex-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1476 gmane.emacs.devel:64502 Archived-At: On Dec 30, 2006, at 16:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > But you might need to do that anyway, since some Emacs features used > by RefTeX will require a newer Emacs. > > Besides, why not couple them? What's the problem? RefTeX has always had a life outside the Emacs CVS repository, to make it run with XEmacs and with non-CVS emacs. It is still fully compatible with Emacs 21, and it caters for XEmacs as well. There are many people who use RefTeX but still use Emacs 21, and even after the 22 release, this will be true for quite a while. I wanted to get bug fixes and new features to these users. Since Emacs does not have a packaging system that allows the user to easily update a package, and since the release cycle is (at least currently) extremely long, distributions outside of Emacs have always been necessary. So even up to now, RefTeX has had its own CVS, into which I have merged any changes done on the Emacs side. So nothing fundamental will change once the AUCTeX project takes over maintenance and distribution. - Carsten