Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since Emacs 22.1 is released and corresponding binaries for Windows are > provided on ftp.gnu.org, the Emacs/AUCTeX bundle for Windows lost its > raison d'être to some extent. So I thought about discontinuing it. > However, as a user I'd find it really annoying if I had to download and > install Emacs, all required image libraries, and AUCTeX separately. > > Providing this stuff as some sort of plug-in which only has to be > unpacked into an existing Emacs installation would really be quite > dangerous if other stuff was already installed into site-lisp or if the > dir file of the info directory was already changed. > > So perhaps we should continue to provide the bundle for users mainly > interested in using Emacs as an editor for TeX and related languages. I > think we should not compete with the binaries provided on ftp.gnu.org, > so I'd continue to offer selected CVS versions. > > What do others think?
"Selected CVS versions" is the key here. The CVS trunk is going to destabilize soon, presumably. Picking a good choice and making the move to trunk again at a good time is the job of a good third party distributor. It would be quite a service to the AUCTeX users on Windows if you were to do that, but don't underestimate the amount of work going into it. Maybe one should focus on EMACS_22_BASE for now if that amount of checking/reassurance does not seem reasonable to invest for you. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
