Re: [ITP] xemacs: A powerful, highly customizable open source text editor and application development system

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:

> >     Charles> would expect...an X-only drag-n-drop wouldn't be that 
> > helpful.
>
> Why not?  We have other X11 packages which could utilize this.  Plus, 
> Harold's on a mission to knock the number of X11 packages sky-high, so 
> undoubtly we'll see many more applications which will utilize this.

XEmacs speaks the following two dragndrop dialects: CDE, and Offix.  Not 
the opendesktop one, nor the KDE one, nor the Gnome one.  So, of 
Harold's new packages, which ones support CDE or Offix style dragndrop?

(Now, I believe the GTK-XEmacs build sprechen se Gnome/opendesktop 
dragndrop -- but GTK-XEmacs isn't under discussion.  (At least, not 
until we get a glib, atk, pango, and gtk package.)

> > We can make an xemacs-extra package, but there's still the conflict 
> > with the ctags package.
>
>
> Are the source code differences mutually exclusive or is one a subset of 
> the other.  Perhaps merging the changes into the other packages might be 
> the way to go?  AFAIK, ctags and friends don't depend on any 
> emacs-specific share libs, right?

I dunno.  The point is, that on Mandrake at least, these conflicting 
files were moved into a separate package so that one could install both 
Emacs / XEmacs / Ctags / etc.  That is, if there are conflicts, minimize 
and segregate them.

s> I'm afraid you'll either need to turn off LDAP support,
> > or ITP an LDAP
> >     Charles> package.
>
>  >
>
> > I think I go for an LDAP package...
>
> Not necessarily, those aren't your only options.  If he's using it 
> statically, then all that is really needed is to provide the source in 
> the xemacs tarball and have the build script build it.  There is no need 
> to ITP the whole thing if all that you want is the client library part. 
>  This is done by a couple of other packages which use external static libs.

Sure.  Personally, I view that as even MORE work than just ITP'ing LDAP.

--
Chuck