From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 17 14:18:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22978 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22973 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id OAA19222; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA19207; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199708172110.OAA19207@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: XEmacs-19.15 port is bad In-Reply-To: from "Brian N. Handy" at "Aug 17, 97 01:56:41 pm" To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Brian N. Handy: > > I don't understand the official position on 20.2 either. It > > has the MULE (internationalization) support as the default > > and is huge. It may be that the 19.X version lacks MULE and > > 20.X has it. > > This is true, though I believe there are other differences. (I lurk on > the newsgroup.) It's possible to compile 20.2 without the MULE support, > which might be a useful consideration. At the risk of being flamed by the > Xemacs folks, I'd suggest we change the port to 20.x and make MULE an > option in the Makefile. Sounds like a good move to me, because not everyone will want the multilanguage support. Having the option seems like the way to join 19.x and 20.x. > > Not sure how big the package becomes when you do this. > > With MULE it is ballpark 80 to 90MB. The v20.2 tarball is 20.5M which takes in excess of two hours at 28.8. On the plus side: you only gotta do it once.... gary > > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix