[AUCTeX-devel] Re: XEmacs and ZUCTeX Problems

[David Kastrup]

Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
>    Ralf> * Ernst Joachim Weniger (2005-11-21) writes:
>
>    >> The current state of AUCTeX on my PC is as follows:
>    >> 
>    >>> Emacs : XEmacs 21.5 (beta22) "cucumber" (+CVS-20050913) [Lucid]
>    >>> (i386-suse-lin ux, Mule) of Tue Sep 20 2005 on barry Package:
>    >>> AUCTeX CVS-1.13 (2005-02-11)
>
>    Ralf> What AUCTeX version does this relate to?  11.55?
>
> Yes, for some bizarre reason, the xemacs-pkg does not get the official
> version number correctly.

The bizarre reason being that tex.el should be checked in as a binary
because of CVS version strings.  It's not like this has not been
discussed already.  AUCTeX 11.81 uses a different strategy to generate
version numbers and will probably work without such measures, at least
when built from the official release.

Of course, XEmacs central won't accept binary packages that have been
built with anything but their personal infrastructure.  I am
contemplating offering prebuilt binary packages from the official
AUCTeX site (complete targets for that are in the Makefile), but on
the other hand it seems pointless to go out of one's way to promote a
product which makes a point of making cooperation difficult.

If XEmacs central prefers a modus of operation which tends to lead to
outdated packages not maintained by the core package authors, then we
probably should respect that choice.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum