Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> writes: >>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:25:29 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Off-topic for emacs-devel. emacs-devel squelched. > > Uwe Brauer writes: > > >> I wish [...] that there existed a debian-like-alien tool which > >> allowed to convert one package into another one, like deb-->rpm > > > This is a red herring. The issue of what XEmacs distributes is > > entirely the build environment. > > Well may be, but I still feel it is a waste of resources to a > extend that the auctex team has developed its own Makefile > to generate a xemacs pkg, and we cannot use it!
It can be used for verification. As long as the upstream XEmacs package _does_ work, you can't go wrong much by tweaking the XEmacs packaging mechanism until it comes up with the same results. > been slower. The actual version is 11.86, xemacs pkg > version is 11.85. I did not upgrade because I was too lazy, > did not see any request in the mailing list.., whatever excuse > I can make. I think there also was some delay due to AUCTeX switching to GPLv3+ and XEmacs not being compatible with that at the time. > In any case although this is my fault I don't think this > difference is very dramatic, but I feel obliged to upgrade > in order to avoid that some day the auctex team decides to > drop xemacs support all together The problem is more that I don't know anybody from the "AUCTeX team" actively using or even checking XEmacs support, so there is a non-zero probability that it will silently cease working at some point of time, either due to AUCTeX changes or due to XEmacs changes. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
