Re: emacs-snapshot and load-path
Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:
> Le 31 Jan 2005, Jérôme Marant vraute :
>
>> > I remember that we talked about that point months ago. Emacs-snapshot
>> > should not provide emacs21 to the apt package tree.
>>
>> What do you mean?
>
> That emacs-snapshot cannot replace emacs21 but installs aside, nor it can
> provide emacs21 feature for elisp packages like ecb for which emacs21 must
> be installed, even if emacs-snapshot provides the same functionality.
I think it is more logical than that: emacs-snapshot will always bring
breakages since it is meant to move all the time. Users need to have something
stable around.
If users want to use ecb with emacs-snapshot, they need to test ecb with it
and ask the ecb maintainer to explicitely add the dependency.
> You told it was by design that it cannot be used as emacs21 replacement.
Yes, I asked Emacs developers and they confirmed that.
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Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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