* David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes:
> Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> It is called "SXEmacs" and it is a fork of XEmacs 21.4.16.
> Since you are talking about a fork of XEmacs, it would not be
> obvious why you felt necessary to copy the emacs-devel list.
Two reasons:
1) Common courtesy.
2) I wanted to reach as many emacs[1] developers as I could in one
go.
> Both from technical as well as licensing viewpoints, this
> announcement appears exclusively of interest to XEmacs users
> and developers.
Licencing viewpoints? What licencing viewpoints? And as for the
technical viewpoints, _all_ GNU/Emacs developers should have at least
a partial interest in _any_ emacs-related[2] technical viewpoint.
Or are GNU/Emacs developers taught to close their eyes to what is
going on around them?
> Using a different version control system would not seem like a
> reason to open another project:
Good thing that that isn't why I did then, huh?
> in fact, Miles Bader keeps an arch repository synchronized with
> Emacs (as can be witnessed by the arch identifying strings that
> are in every Emacs source file by now).
Oh, thanks for letting me know that Miles was foolish enough to use
arch taglines. Now I know that if I'm ever synching to GNU/Emacs code
I have to remove the tagline. Danke sehr!
Footnotes:
[1] "emacs" here is a general term to denote GNU/Emacs and XEmacs.
[2] See {1}
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