At 09:59 AM 4/6/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>Paul Kinnucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The JDE CVS repository is intended to facilitate development of the
>> JDE. It is not intended to serve as a source for independently
>> developed packages required by and, in some cases, distributed with
>> the JDE.
>
>Ok, fair enough. I just thought that any package/.el file not made by
>you would be available from somewhere else.
>
senator is a new package created by David Ponce. It will eventually be
included in the semantic package. senator is available with the latest beta
distribution (JDE-2.2.7beta6). Why don't you just download the JDE beta.
>> You appear to be upgrading your installation from the JDE CVS respository.
>> This is a very bad idea as the CVS repository is not guaranteed to be
>> stable. It contains work-in-progress that may break other features.
>
>I'm aware of that. I'm still evaluating JDE, and I'm the only JDE
>user here yet, so I can live with that. I just want the latest
>features, the latest bugs I can live with. :-)
>
>I'm doing the same for Gnus and some other packages, so I guess I've
>become lazy: It's very simple to do "cvs update" and then "make"
>instead of figuring out the various configuration/installation options
>of the packages I use. The XEmacs people has made some kind of way of
>dealing with simple downloading and installation of packages, but for
>us Emacs users, we still have to do extra work, and when the various
>packages use different configuration/installation setup it is just
>easier to update a CVS repository which happens to be in the
>load-path.
>
The XEmacs package repository scheme actually is very bad for complex
packages like the JDE. For example, it involves installing JDE files in two
different directories. The version of the JDE in the XEmacs repository is
about a year old because it is so difficult to update that even the XEmacs
maintainers have given up maintaining it. I've tried taking over the job
but it's so time-consuming and involved that I've not been able to complete
the update. The result is that installation of the JDE for XEmacs users
involves extra work. I greatly prefer the Emacs approach.
- Paul
