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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release. |
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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:45:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:25:29 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Off-topic for emacs-devel. emacs-devel squelched.
> > Uwe Brauer writes:
>
> >> I wish [...] that there existed a debian-like-alien tool which
> >> allowed to convert one package into another one, like deb-->rpm
>
> > This is a red herring. The issue of what XEmacs distributes is
> > entirely the build environment.
>
> Well may be, but I still feel it is a waste of resources to a
> extend that the auctex team has developed its own Makefile
> to generate a xemacs pkg, and we cannot use it!
It can be used for verification. As long as the upstream XEmacs package
_does_ work, you can't go wrong much by tweaking the XEmacs packaging
mechanism until it comes up with the same results.
> been slower. The actual version is 11.86, xemacs pkg
> version is 11.85. I did not upgrade because I was too lazy,
> did not see any request in the mailing list.., whatever excuse
> I can make.
I think there also was some delay due to AUCTeX switching to GPLv3+ and
XEmacs not being compatible with that at the time.
> In any case although this is my fault I don't think this
> difference is very dramatic, but I feel obliged to upgrade
> in order to avoid that some day the auctex team decides to
> drop xemacs support all together
The problem is more that I don't know anybody from the "AUCTeX team"
actively using or even checking XEmacs support, so there is a non-zero
probability that it will silently cease working at some point of time,
either due to AUCTeX changes or due to XEmacs changes.
--
David Kastrup
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/12/05
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release., Tassilo Horn, 2012/12/15
Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [ELPA-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/elpa r312: Update AUCTeX ELPA package to the new 11.87 release., Ralf Angeli, 2012/12/08