Hi, here is what I think about coverage for the next release:
XEmacs package: probably the most annoying issue. You saw the recent discussions, and I hope you'll agree that we'll probably do XEmacs users a favor by providing our own XEmacs packages of AUCTeX for download. While the average user will likely not use the package system and instead use sumo tarballs, at least we can point to an up-to-date package under our control and maintenance. And of course, this package should provide a well-defined starting point for Uwe (or whoever else) to get something into the XEmacs package repository eventually. RPM: At the current point of time, we just provide SuSE RPMs for Emacs. XEmacs is left out in the cold, Fedora has fallen behind. While the Fedora-extras project has made an RPM of their own, they have disabled preview-latex. I don't think this cuts it. So with the next release, I'd want to at least provide whatever we happen to provide for SuSE. I'll boot into my old system for that purpose, which would probably be somewhere between FC2 and FC3 and should create working packages for current systems, I guess. Windows: nicely catered for by Ralf's combined CVS-Emacs/AUCTeX package. We should take care to pick a good version of CVS-Emacs, however. Currently, links in non-active windows have stopped working which is very annoying. MacOSX: yaced <URL:http://yaced.sourceforge.net> appears to pick up AUCTeX releases and Emacs very well. No special efforts of ours required AFAICS. The same appears to hold for Aquamacs <URL:http://aquamacs.sourceforge.net/latex.html>. Debian: Davide appears to be missing in action again. No idea what to do about this. It would certainly seem desirable to get AUCTeX to 11.8x (and thus preview-latex merged) before the next Debian freeze happens. I have no idea whether it would be advisable to ask Ohura Makoto (the current preview-latex maintainer) or Frank Küster (who at one time was shortly before a NMU or whatever they call it) whether they'd be willing to consider catering for AUCTeX. Things I would want to fix in our code before the next release: a) context menus on preview icons don't work for some reason. Needs debugging. b) mouse-1 action on previews/preview icons in CVS Emacs should be the same as mouse-2 except for long button presses. CVS Emacs has the mechanisms in place for that in principle, but I have not been able to get it to work, c) we should enable the LaTeX toolbar by default (and make it reasonably easy to disable it). But I don't want extra files to get loaded for people who don't use toolbars. Anything else? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
