Re: [eev] Debian package: first real announcement

[Eduardo Ochs]

Hi Xavier,

> Sorry not to have posted an answer to your previous message but my
> mail server just blowned up.

I remember that as being my fault!... You sent this e-mail to the
mailing list,

  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/eev/2010-04/msg00000.html

and as I felt that I only had a very incomplete answer I sent you an
e-mail in private and promised a fuller, public answer soon - which I
never finished, because it depended on fixing some things that looked
trivial - but the fix became eev-template.el, which took me ages to
write...

> > Its dependencies have been reduced almost to a minimum - just emacs
> > and xterm - and now the recommended way to interact with external
> > programs with CLIs is by using eepitch (which has been rewritten):
>
> Does this mean you will deprecate the /old/ way ?

Sorry, good questions! Let me be clearer about the plan. The other
"ways" besides eepitch will not be deprecated, they will just become
secondary - eepitch will be explained before the other ways in most
docs, and the scripts to invoke eev-rctool, to set up eechannel, and
to test if they work will be rewritten to become eepitch-based.

> > Note that the "eepitch way" does not require any setup at all.
>
> What do you mean by "setup" ? No need of rc_tool ?

Exactly. 8-)

> Will GNU Eev be only eepitch+eev-template in a near future ?

No, but I would like to rearrange the definitions in files to isolate
the parts that depend on eev-rctool from the other parts. This is a
medium-term goal, though.

  Cheers! =)
    Eduardo