On Sat 02 Aug 2008 at 12:12AM, Dan Price wrote:
> On Fri 01 Aug 2008 at 02:15PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> > I want emacs in the wos. I do not want to see it held hostage to
> > legal's inability to come to terms w/ gplv3.
> >
> > >
> > >If they all do get frozen, then that stinks, and it makes hash of the
> > >whole rationale for trying to ship them in the first place.
> > >
> >
> > The gplv3 mess will get resolved. I don't want to see this or other
> > projects held up until it happens; I'd much rather have a slight old
> > version of emacs for a while rather than none at all.
>
> I'll chime in as well, in support of this proposal in general:
> having a working emacs for this people who depend on emacs as a
> productivity tool is a big win.
And I forgot to add: according to some data we have from the results
of 'pkg search', it appears that emacs is in the top 5 packages folks
are looking for after installing opensolaris.
-dp
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