Klaus Berndl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: This discussion leads for me to the old topic concerning the > lack of a package-system of GNU-Emacs - IMHO one of the most > disadvantages of GNU compared to XEmacs - surely, that one of XEmacs > is not perfect (really not ;-) but after all it *IS* a > package-system which can make live easier - at least for the users > and for the newbies
Users and newbies tend not to use it, and its use conflicts with the package management of distributions, anyway. So the typical usage is installing the sumo package from your distribution and never touch it again. The price to pay for that is that packages sometimes incompatible with the core of XEmacs you are using, and are often quite outdated. > - maybe not for the package-programmers ;-) But a well defined > package-interface could also have a lot of advantages for the > package-programmer...but now I'm going really off topic i see... ;-) I am not of the opinion that the XEmacs package system has been a factor that has increased the productivity of end users as well as developers significantly. Partly this might be ascribed to the centralized distribution channels of it that make it impossible for third parties to provide packages through the XEmacs package manager. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
