From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.auctex.devel Subject: Re: CVS repository synchronization for RefTeX Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:03:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k60b7hv5.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87sley46bb.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87mz554e1u.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167501831 7123 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 18:03:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:03:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net, auctex-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 19:03:50 2006 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 1H0iYc-0007zh-Bd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:03:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iYb-0001zy-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iYR-0001zI-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iYQ-0001yu-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:03:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0iYP-0001yr-Oj; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0iYP-0006kM-50; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-225-74.inter.net.il [84.229.225.74]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GRE82967 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:03:31 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Carsten Dominik In-reply-to: (message from Carsten Dominik on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:55 +0100) 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:64509 gmane.emacs.auctex.devel:1478 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, > Ralf Angeli , > auctex-devel@gnu.org > From: Carsten Dominik > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:47:55 +0100 > > 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. Ralf said Emacs release cycle is too slow, but now you say that there are many RefTeX users that still use Emacs 21. This sounds like a contradiction to me. Anyway, I just wanted to say that developing an Emacs package outside Emacs bears additional burden. It is up to you to decide whether that burden is justified.