Re: CVS is the `released version'

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2007-05-13) writes:
>
>> The advantage is just one of decoupled updates of centrally organized
>> packages to the centrally organized core.
>>
>> I doubt that this could not equally well be achieved with a policy of
>> more frequent releases from a release branch.
>
> It does not cater for people who think that over 100MB is an obscene
> size for an editor.  It is quite lean for a desktop environment,
> though.

Let's put this into perspective: while this has been one of the
theoretical motivators of the XEmacs package system, the ratio of
people who don't use the "Sumo tarball" of everything is rather small.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum