Re: Bug#729660: ITP: xemacs21 -- highly customizable text editor
On 11/16/2013 02:06 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> I'm kind of wondering why we are arguing how someone who has
> maintained zlib longer than the rest of us have been DDs combined
> should spend his time.
I'm not criticizing him, I'm criticizing the idea. Or, putting it
the other way around, I think it should still be allowed to voice
my opinion and doubts even about the plans of someone who has been
in Debian much longer than I am.
> Mark has a great and long track record in debian and apparantly needs
> xemacs21 to do proper work, why should we put obstacles in the way for
> that?
I was in no way doubting that Mark hasn't the necessary skills and
or motivation, that was out of the question and I find it quite
unfair that you move my argumentation into that direction.
My point is that XEmacs isn't really being developed anymore and
I don't think it's a good idea to re-introduce a package which
was just recently removed for that particular reason.
If someone actually came up and said that XEmacs has feature
XYZ that is completely missing in emacs, I might see the point.
But risking bugs which won't get addressed in a timely manner
because upstream doesn't really work anymore can't be justified
with the argument that some people think the interface of XEmacs
is prettier than the one of GNU emacs.
Adrian
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