>> On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:24:50 +0100, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tassilo Horn <[email protected]> writes: [snip] > Now XEmacs will only distribute package files that have been assembled > by XEmacs tools in the XEmacs package tree. This is correct. I wish it were different, that there existed a debian-like-alien tool which allowed to convert one package into another one, like deb-->rpm > So the XEmacs packages that AUCTeX provides will work > fine, but you'll have to find, download and install > them manually instead of relying on the XEmacs > packaging system. You can unpack it in ~/.xemacs/packages or in prefix/xemacs/site-packages > What will be provided in the XEmacs package > repositories consequently is something massaged > manually to the necessary layout, commonly with > mistakes and several years behind. Well if their package manager were faster it should be a question of days not years :'( [snip] > The XEmacs compatibility code in the Lisp files itself is peanuts in > comparison. No point in removing that as far as I can see. However, > preview-latex has a somewhat more extensive compatibility setup. It > would be arguable not to place the prv-xemacs.el files in the ELPA > packaging at least. That is your call to make. > Removing it from the source distribution would be > seriously unfair since it is technically complex enough that starting it > from scratch would be quite hard: that would be several man-months at > least from an experienced XEmacs programmer, and there are none as far > as I can see interested in AUCTeX. Yes, please, do *not* remove it, that would be real nightmare for Xemacs users. Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
