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From: | Adrian Robert |
Subject: | Re: emacs.app_9.0pre2-1_i386.changes REJECTED |
Date: | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:26:27 -0500 |
On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Kim F. Storm wrote:
Gürkan Sengün <address@hidden> writes:For the curious and history: 1992 18.x http://www.linuks.mine.nu/openstep/emacs.png 2005 23.x http://gnu.ethz.ch/emacs.app.pngSo your team will "release" emacs 23.x in 2005, while we didn't even manage to release 22.x this year ...
Hi,I'm probably to blame here -- I've been using the term "emacs-23" in some places as a shorter, snappier alternative to "GNU emacs CVS, unicode-2 branch", to indicate exactly what version of GNU Emacs Emacs.app is based on. I didn't intend for it to be misleading, or suggest that emacs-23 is in any way due for release soon, or that emacs-23 definitely WILL be based on the unicode-2 branch. Maybe, to avoid confusion, it's best to just drop use of the term "emacs 23" completely for now?
I assume though that a Debian package for Emacs.app or any other unicode-2 based version won't constitute "release" of GNU Emacs any more than the existing package based on emacs CVS HEAD constitutes a 22.x release.
BTW, in response to Gürkan's original email, I wanted to point out that Emacs.app is still a work-in-progress -- independently of the state of CVS/Unicode-2 (which seems pretty good), there is much to be done with keyboard input, toolbars, etc., all outlined here: http:// emacs-app.sourceforge.net/KNOWN-ISSUES.txt and here: http://emacs- app.sourceforge.net/TODO.txt . Nonetheless, Emacs.app is perfectly serviceable as a daily editor under GNUstep and OS X right now, if you don't need those functions. It is, however, hard to build under GNUstep, which is part of the reason for working on a Debian package.
thanks, Adrian
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