Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:10:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com (Brian N. Handy) Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XEmacs-19.15 port is bad Message-ID: <199708172110.OAA19207@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970817135406.18812A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian N. Handy" at "Aug 17, 97 01:56:41 pm"
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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
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