Dr Volker Zell wrote:
Hi
I would like to contribute and maintain the xemacs package:
* http://xemacs.org/ (Homepage) * http://ftp.us.xemacs.org/ftp/pub/ (Download location)
Hi Dr Zell,
FYI, the emacs provided via setup is Xemacs, not GNU emacs. So this is already provided by the emacs-* packages and is maintained by Joe Buehler. I'm not sure if the elisp packages it provides is as all-inclusive as the sumo version, so he'd be the guy to talk to regarding that.
Bzzt. Thanks for playing.
The emacs packages ARE, in fact, FSF GNU Emacs. Personally, I prefer XEmacs, so I welcome this addition.
So +1 from me.
My concern is this:
The XEmacs people have their own distribution of XEmacs for cygwin -- they even adapted our setup.exe for the purpose. I'd really hate to tick them off by "stepping on their turf" by providing a redundant, competing, package.
Volker, have you contacted the maintainer of the cygwin-XEmacs distro on the xemacs-nt mailing list, and discussed your intentions with him?
-- Chuck
