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Re: Contributing to Emacs Development


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs Development
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:43:55 +0200

> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:40:46 -0600
> From: address@hidden
>       
>       And using update alternatives, they can.

I'm not sure I understand what ``update alternatives'' are.  Could you
elaborate?

>  Please note that my
>  proposal (which is quite inchoate here, and has not yet been
>  proposed to the debian-emacsen mailing list) does not actually
>  involve emacs at all. The dir file shall say:
> * Emacs: (emacs).      The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> * Emacs-20: (emacs-20).      The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> * Emacs-21: (emacs-21).      The extensible self-documenting text editor.
> 
>       And emacs shall be pointed to by the current update
>  alternatives candidate.

How does this ``pointing'' work in practice?

>  Eli> We need to find a solution that will work in all Info readers,
>  Eli> preferably without requiring any changes in those readers, for
>  Eli> back-compatibility with old readers (although I think this goal is
>  Eli> probably all but impossible to achieve).
> 
>       You are being far too perssimistic.

I sincerely hope you are right.



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