* Tassilo Horn (2012-12-05) writes: > Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> writes: > >> Use elpa/packages/auctex as the official upstream. >> >>> We are planning to migrate to some DVCS anytime soon, but since >>> AUCTeX is expected to work with all Emacs versions >= 21.x plus >>> XEmacs >= 21.4.x, there's no way to develop it only as a part of >>> emacs in its bzr repo, although that would be very nice from a >>> maintenance point of view.
Since we want to make standalone releases for older Emacsen and XEmacs, we'd also have to keep the build system. >> I don't see what prevents it. AFAICT it still contains all the >> backward compatibility code that's in CVS and nobody asked to remove >> it. If there are a couple more xemacs-specific files, I have no >> objection to you adding them. > > I'd welcome this but David and Ralf are more qualified to judge about > feasibility. Especially, there's much complexity in auctex's build > system in order to compile XEmacs packages, and that's a bit more than > just an auctex-compat.el. Another reason to keep the build system is the possibility to install preview.sty and its documentation in a TeX system tree. You can do this with `preview-install-styles' as well, but only for your user, unless you have sudo or root access. So I dunno if a site-wide install of AUCTeX and preview would be easily feasible with just the Emacs package system. >> The only remaining problem I can imagine is for those few files which >> aren't FSF-copyright and hence aren't in the ELPA package, but IIUC >> these are obsoletish and could just be dropped (noone complained about >> them missing from the ELPA version). > > Yes, these 5 or 6 files are only addons for some special latex styles. > They are not important for auctex, and they could be dropped or easily > rewritten by someone else with CA by just looking at the corresponding > latex style but not the current code. If we don't get the CAs I wouldn't mind either deleting those files. -- Ralf _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
