Re: Return

[Samuel Bronson]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

>  > Probably, in the case of add-on packages, it does not help that the
>  > XEmacs packaging machinery is only intended for use with packages
>  > stored in its own CVS tree...
>
> That is false.  If somebody wants to use our packaging machinery for
> out of tree packaging, they are certainly welcome to do so.  VM does
> it, for example.  I among others would spend some effort to make that
> easier; I know it's rather awkward at the moment.

Er, I guess I should have made that clearer... I actually meant that
it seems that (more or less) needs to put *something* in the
xemacs-packages tree, and this is (I assume) not particularly fun
without CVS commit access. At least, none of my DVCSes seem to be able
to handle branching from CVS...