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Re: GTK file selector
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GTK file selector |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:23:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Why do they abandon it? And what do they prefer instead?
> >
> > They abandon it because of stagnant development, the design and
> > implementation clusterfuck that is Mule from the perspective of
> > European language users (search for ö not working again!) and
> > minimal consideration for GUI users in this age of 17"
> > screens. Among other reasons.
>
> Over the last three years that I've been contributing to Emacs,
> development has been pretty active.
Which would rather explain why people are abandoning it: those three
years of development have never been released.
> Without doing market research, any notion that people are abandoning
> Emacs can only be anecdotal.
Debian by now has "emacs-snapshot" as a package. People _are_
abandoning released versions of Emacs, also because of problems in the
utf-8 department. CVS trunk is much better than anything that has
been released, but few system administrators will, even when tempted
to use it themselves, unleash an unreleased Emacs unto their users.
> Perhaps you're bitter that XEmacs does seemed to have slowed down,
> but please remember this list is for contributing to Emacs
> development, not to knock it down.
XEmacs at least sports more or less regular releases from their
increasingly stagnant development code base.
"Waiting for Emacs" would make for a scintillating piece of absurd
theater, with the particularly rememberable line "Code, pig!". I have
not yet figured out where XEmacs would come into play, though.
ESTRAGON:
Charming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing
auditorium .) Inspiring prospects. (He turns to Vladimir.) Let's
release.
VLADIMIR:
We can't.
ESTRAGON:
Why not?
VLADIMIR:
We're waiting for Bugfixes.
ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
VLADIMIR:
What?
ESTRAGON:
That we were to wait.
VLADIMIR:
He said from the trunk. (They look at the CVS tree.) Do you see any others?
ESTRAGON:
What is it?
VLADIMIR:
I don't know. A branch.
ESTRAGON:
Where are the commits?
VLADIMIR:
It must be dead.
ESTRAGON:
No more weeping.
VLADIMIR:
Or perhaps it's not the season.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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- Re: GTK file selector, Kim F. Storm, 2005/12/16
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