Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:36:54 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Kammerhofer <mkamm@utanet.at> To: Yoichi NAKAYAMA <yoichi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: mkamm@gmx.net, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about auctex port for FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201272151470.593-100000@homebox.kammerhofer.org> In-Reply-To: <wyhep8vacn.wl@eken5.eken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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On 2002-01-27 Yoichi NAKAYAMA wrote:
: Dear auctex port's maintainer
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: My proposal is as follows:
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: 1 Abolish xemacs support in print/auctex.
Personally I do not use xemacs and have not tested auctex with
xemacs. Since you told me that auctex is already part of the
standard xemacs lisp packages collection, I agree to terminate
support for xemacs in auctex.
: 2.0 Use bsd.emacs.mk.
: 2.1 Depend on emacs21 by default.
I agree.
: 2.2 Install to emacs' version specific directory
: 2.3 Add suffix for packages.
: 2.4 Add stub port for emacs20 as print/auctex-emacs20.
: (simply set EMACS_PORT_NAME=3Demacs20 in its Makefile)
I do not see any benefits for the users. Afaik auctex (the lisp files
themselves) do not depend in any way on emacsen-version. If one package
fits all, why should the force users to install/upgrade different package=
s
for different emacsen?
: 3 Remove 2-byte chars from Makefile.
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I do not understand what you mean by '2-byte chars'. If you are
suggesting to replace the broken-bars (=A6) with an ascii character
like semicolon (;) - well, I do not have any objections.
: No.2 in above is to arrange auctec port like other emacs lisp
: ports e.g. speedbar,ecb,tramp, etc.
:
I think uniformity of ports is not as important as ease of use. As I
pointed out above, the possibility of sharing one installed auctex packag=
e
among different emacs version is convenient for users.
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: Would you give me some comment or approval for my proposal, please?
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Finally thank you for pointing out, that
".if exists(${LOCALBASE}/bin/xemacs)" is ineffective, because of
wrong placement inside the Makefile. If we drop xemacs support we do
not need this code fragment any more.
Best regards,
Martin Kammerhofer
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