Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the xemacs package:
* http://xemacs.org/ (Homepage) * http://ftp.us.xemacs.org/ftp/pub/ (Download location) and also the accompanying packages xemacs-sumo/xemacs-mule-sumo: * http://xemacs.org/Develop/packages.html (Homepage) * ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/ (Download location) I haven't uploaded the packages yet because there are 3 minor problems which I would like to discuss. o In the xemacs package there are two files in common with the standard emacs package /usr/bin/b2m.exe /usr/bin/rcs-checkin How should I deal with them ? o Also xemacs ships with a copy of etags/ctags which collide with the following files from the ctags package (they also have different command-line options) /usr/bin/ctags.exe /usr/bin/etags.exe and if ctags gets updated to the FHS also the following man pages will collide /usr/share/man/man1/ctags.1 /usr/share/man/man1/etags.1 How to deal with this issues ? o The two sumo packages are just the complete prepackaged elisp infrastructure for running xemacs. xemacs-sumo is about 22MB and xemacs-mule-sumo about 5MB in size !! Everybody could just download them from the original download location (see above) and untar them in the right lisp load path. The only advantages of having them as cygwin packages are: setup compatible and the right location for unpacking is in place. The size is what worries me. What do you think ? Ciao Volker -- Here is the setup.hint file: sdesc: "A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system" ldesc: "XEmacs is a powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system, with full GUI support. It is protected under the GNU Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support and an open software development model, similar to Linux. XEmacs has an active development community numbering in the hundreds (and thousands of active beta testers on top of this), and runs on all versions of MS Windows, on Linux, and on nearly every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs has been supplied by Sun Microsystems, University of Illinois, Lucid, ETL/Electrotechnical Laboratory, Amdahl Corporation, BeOpen, and others, as well as the unpaid time of a great number of individual developers." category: Editors Interpreters requires: cygipc cygwin expat lesstif libdb4.1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype26 libiconv2 libintl2 libjpeg62 libncurses7 libpng12 libtiff4 openssl postgresql XFree86-bin zlib -- Here is the setup.hint file for xemacs-sumo: sdesc: "XEmacs standard packages" ldesc: "XEmacs standard packages" category: Editors requires: cygwin xemacs -- Here is the setup.hint file for xemacs-mule-sumo: sdesc: "XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs) packages" ldesc: "XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs) packages" category: Editors requires: cygwin xemacs
