Thanks for the info. Seems like the time has come to checkout latest XEmacs after a couple of years to check what's in there :)
Regards, Marko 2011/1/24 Didier Verna <did...@lrde.epita.fr>: > Marko Kocić <marko.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> ... >>>> Discussion about including ECL into XEmacs >>>> ... >> >> Did you actually talked with XEmacs maintainers about using ECL in >> Xemacs in the way you described? What are the chances it will got >> accepted in mainline if it happen? > > Not sure who you're talking to exactly here :-) > > As one of the XEmacs maintainers (Jerry's also around these days), I can > tell you that (at least part of) the review board already discussed > those ideas quite often. I know of at least one other maintainer who > would strongly disagree with me and Jerry, as he would be on the > pro-scheme side. That may not be enough for preventing the change to > happen, if it ever becomes more than just a pie-in-the-sky thought. We > are in fact, I think, a majority of pro-CL maintainers. > >> Also, XEmacs project looks a bit stale now, at least looking at the >> commit logs. > > The project is less active than before, yes (I for one have much less > time to devote to it than I used to). But it's not completely stale. > Most of the activity is currently devoted to moving to the GPL v3, which > is a showstopper for many other things including syncing stuff from GNU > Emacs. > > On the other hand one other guy is doing a lot of work to make our ELisp > more common-lisp like and I've been developing a CLOS implementation for > XEmacs. This is also an indication that there *is* interest in going > towards CL. > > -- > Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. > > Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier > Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Ecls-list mailing list > Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
