At 08:54 PM 6/14/2001 +0530, Vishy wrote:
> > Anyway, I do not use XEmacs so I do not have the incentive, let alone the
>time, to
> > resolve this problem. I suggest that you and other XEmacs users try to get
> > at the bottom of the problem and provide a fix. Or you could use Emacs,
> > which is just as good as XEmacs, if not better, and is the editor for
>which the JDE is
> > primarily developed.
>
>Paul,
>I do understand that you are not happy with some XEmacs issues. The use of
>Emacs/XEmacs is a matter of personal choice, developed over a period of
>time, and is difficult to change. Lots of users like me depend on JDE and
>XEmacs to provide us our java IDE. I would really hate to lose this great
>tool because of minor irritants like these.
>
>Let me add that at my workplace I use JDE with XEmacs on a Windoze 2000 box
>and I can easily claim that my productivity is at least 20 - 30 % higher
>than my colleagues who use IDE's like Visual Cafe, JBuilder and Netbeans.
>
>Is'nt this unbashed admiration of a superb piece of software(JDE) motivation
>enough to continue support for XEmacs? ;-)
Hi Vishwanathan,
Because I don't benefit from fixing XEmacs compatibility problems or
solving purely XEmacs usage problems, it's hard for me to justify putting
much time into XEmacs support. Accordingly, my policy on XEmacs support is
to do the minimum, which I define as the following:
* I include XEmacs compatibility code in features that I develop if I am
aware of
an XEmacs compatibility issue. I do not, however, as a rule test new
features to ensure
that they work on XEmacs. This means that XEmacs usrs can generally
expect to encounter at least a few XEmacs incompatibility bugs in new
features. I feel
that it is not unreasonable to expect XEmacs users to find and fix these
problems
themselves.
* I am happy to apply XEmacs compatibility patches contributed by XEmacs
users to the JDE sources
so that other XEmacs users can benefit from them.
* I answer XEmacs user questions if I think I know the answer off the top
of my head. I do
not, however, spend a lot of time trying to reproduce a problem on my
system or
pouring through a user's bug report to try to pin down the problem. I
think obscure problems
are more efficiently handled by experienced XEmacs/JDE users via the JDE
list.
Regards,
- Paul
