Re: Not a timetable

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

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

> "FP" == François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> FP> For a while, pretesting for Emacs 20.3, I have `export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1'
> FP> in `~/.bash_login', and this makes Emacs pretty usable for me.
> 
> It is not a matter of usability.  It is a matter of the fact that it
> is impossible to build FSF Emacs 20 without MULE code when MULE is
> neither required nor desired.  [...] But I will not use an Emacs with
> MULE compiled in, and I am not alone on that stance.

A kind of principle, then?  A political statement?  Just bad character? :-)

This is a bit like if I was saying that I do not use colourisation of
articles in Gnus, and intend to refuse to install or use Gnus until there
is an option to produce `.elc' files with all colourisation code removed.
Is that it?  Is there anything else to it?

There are surely a *lot* of programs in which I'm far from using all
features.  I would not refuse to use them on the sole basis they are more
generous than I strictly need.  I hope I'm much more reasonable than that.

If I may, not being alone in a strange attitude does not necessarily make
it good, one also needs sounded reasons to excuse it.  I only guess that
you have other untold reasons for not wanting to use this Emacs version.

				With my regards, of course, :-)

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