On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
In that light and as the ports maintainer of math/ess, the Emacs speaks statistics R-mode of emacs, I am asking myself specifically whether I add any real benefit in maintaining math/ess. More generally, I am interested in community answers as to whether it is really useful to maintain Emacs-extension-packages in ports.
As a non-Emacs user, can I raise some questions that should be asked every time a service/feature is withdrawn?
If you stop maintaining math/ess, does it go away, or merely stop improving?
Does the Emacs package system support the same versions of Emacs that you support in math/ess?
If a user upgrades FreeBSD will he lose what he has unless he converts to the new Emacs package system?
Is the Emacs package system something that requires an installation of its own?
May I suggest that if you let it go away, you place a README file where Emacs-extension-packages was that points users to the replacement, with instructions for how to get there? Not everyone using Emacs on FreeBSD follows the mailing lists for FreeBSD, (or Emacs).
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