Re: Please unbundle the custom and widget libraries from qgnus.

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Primarilly because MULE breaks ISO Latin-1 which works flawlessly in GNU
> Emacs 19.34 and barely works at all in GNU Emacs 20.1.  Assuming for the
> moment that you are not a developer/tester, which would you prefer to use,
> a version of GNU Emacs that works, or one that manages to limp along and
> occasionally breaks your files?

I don't think MULE breaks ISO Latin-1.  It makes it harder to use,
maybe.  Anyway, you mentioned Erik as an example -- but Erik *is* the
one who calls out to everyone to switch to 20.1.  Even with MULE, it's 
still better than 19.34.  One of the reasons why it's better
(according to Erik) is Custom.

> Hrvoje> My point is that one should not use MULE as an excuse to stick with
> Hrvoje> Emacs 19.34b forever (and refusing to acknowledge Custom, etc.)  Is
> Hrvoje> that what you intend to do?
> 
> But you see, MULE is exactly that.  If Erik's YAGE project fails to pan
> out, and the 19.35 release never appears, there will be many who freeze at
> 19.34 forever, because that is how long it will be before RMS makes MULE a
> compile time option as it is with GNU XEmacs.

I don't think MULE is as bad as that, but you're free to make your own 
choices.  I hope that other package developers will not give up Custom 
because of Stallmans idiotic decisions.


P.S.
`GNU XEmacs' makes me gag.  It's just XEmacs.  Or we fight back with
`FSF Emacs', which makes Stallman gag. :-)

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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