Uwe Brauer writes: > >> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:25:29 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" > >> <[email protected]> wrote: >
> 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! For what value of "we"? *You* can use it in your personal environment, and if it works for you, great. I have no objection to third parties taking short cuts. But we can't, because Emacs Lisp doesn't have packages, it only has features, which aren't versioned. The point of the XEmacs package build system is that packages we *distribute* are built in a controlled, consistent environment. Then we can take responsibility for the bugs. The only reasonable way to guarantee a consistent environment in Emacs Lisp is to build with a specific version of the byte compiler (21.4 -- AFAIK it hasn't changed since 21.4.0) and a specific checkout of Lisp libraries. Full stop, end of story. GNU Emacs achieves this by simply distributing the World with Emacs. We don't want to do that. In practice, of course, there are slight variations possible for the interim releases, but they get re-synched with every SUMO release. _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
