Re: when emacs 22.1 release will ready?

[Leo]

----- Lennart Borgman (gmail) (2007-04-30) wrote:-----

> Leo wrote:
>
>> Long term release hurts every project. The huge success of the kernel
>> again shows the only thing to make RMS change is to do something
>> better than him like what XEmacs did in the past and what Ubuntu did
>> to Debian.
>
>
> Is not one of the things behind the Ubuntu success that it is
> financially backed up by someone with both resources and a kind
> interest in the project?

That's maybe one reason but there are tons of other ditros backed by
companies.

> I do not know very much about Xemacs, but since I think that lack of
> resources is crucial here I think that things would have been much
> better without that split.

NO. The lack of resources is a cause of long release cycle. I feel it is
unfair the developers valid point of view is deliberately ignored by
rms.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)