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xemacs liveness

xemacs liveness

Posted Mar 17, 2008 12:10 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: I am afraid emacs is becoming irrelevant by nix
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

While not an xemacs user (maybe I should become one just to be contrary :-), this thread prompted me to visit its site out of curiousity. Doesn't look so dead to me, eg. there is more traffic in mailing lists than in many other FOSS projects (eg see http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2008-March/thread.html). The latest stable release is 1/2 years old, which also is not so unusual.


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xemacs liveness

Posted Mar 17, 2008 20:16 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The pace of development at the moment is very, very slow. The unstable 
release is moving at the speed of most projects' stable releases, because 
nobody working on it has the time to do major development. (I include 
myself in this to some extent. I don't have hg commit privs largely 
because I, sigh, wouldn't have the time to do anything with them. I need 
some way to double the number of hours in the day, or perhaps triple 
them...)

But it works, and is revivable if someone steps up to the plate *looks at 
self guiltily*

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