From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: Gnus 5.10 and Emacs' CVS
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:58:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptag95lf.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uk70px9kp.fsf@swbell.net> (Peter Lee's message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:58:14 -0500")
Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:
> One obvious solution is to pull it out of Emacs all together.
> Maintain it as a seperate package only.
>
> Emacs is bloated as it is. Those who don't use Gnus currently get
> it whether they want it or not.
It's not that simple. Other parts of Emacs depend on some Gnus
libraries.
> I know it wouldn't bother me, as I use CVS anyway. Anyone smart
> enough to use Gnus shouldn't have any problems downloading a tarball
> and installing it.
I strongly disagree. Being bundled with Emacs itself is important --
it increases availability and visibility greatly. Most people do not
want to hunt down and install third-party packages.
--
Jesper Harder <http://purl.org/harder/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-09 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-09 8:53 Frank Schmitt
2004-04-09 10:45 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2004-04-10 15:51 ` Kevin Greiner
2004-04-13 11:15 ` Proposed Changes Kevin Greiner
2004-04-13 17:51 ` Reiner Steib
2004-04-14 3:55 ` Kevin Greiner
2004-04-14 6:38 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-14 16:38 ` Kevin Greiner
2004-04-14 20:00 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-16 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-16 13:53 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-22 17:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-04-09 12:48 ` Gnus 5.10 and Emacs' CVS Jesper Harder
2004-04-09 13:03 ` Henrik Enberg
2004-04-09 13:10 ` Jesper Harder
2004-04-09 15:47 ` Frank Schmitt
2004-04-09 16:13 ` Jesper Harder
2004-04-09 18:58 ` Peter Lee
2004-04-09 20:09 ` Romain Francoise
2004-04-09 20:34 ` Sebastian D.B. Krause
2004-04-09 21:58 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-04-10 2:10 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-09 16:35 ` Henrik Enberg
2004-04-09 16:37 ` Henrik Enberg
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