Re: XEmacs support will be discontinued for new Tramp versions

Michael Albinus writes:

 > (you know, Tramp maintenance is almost a one man show, except the
 > contributions from Jürgen Hötzel for tramp-adb and tramp-gvfs).

IOW, only one GNU Emacs hacker has jumped in to TRAMP development. ;-)
And yes, I'm well-aware that TRAMP has been a mostly one-man show
since around 1997 (maybe before); I do try to stay on top of who's
doing what in packages that are not maintained in XEmacs core.  I know
very well how much extra work is involved in supporting both GNU Emacs
and XEmacsen, even though I don't have time to contribute much to them
directly.

 > > You also seem to be unaware of some of the syncs that have taken place
 > > in XEmacs 21.5 (which is the recommended version for users who are
 > > willing to report bugs, and don't insist on near bulletproofness):
 > 
 > Maybe. I have always been told that XEmacs 21.4 matters.

It does in the sense that packages must not crash just because you're
running 21.4, but it's end-of-life, and new features can just signal:
`(error 'unimplemented "<feature> not supported in [XEmacs [21.4]]...")'.

 > > That sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.  I hope the bug in Mac
 > > OS X I mentioned above would qualify as "serious"?
 > 
 > Yes. But I won't fix anything proactively, pls report
 > problems/bugs.

Sure.

 > And of course, every (S)XEmacs hacker is free to sync with future
 > Tramp releases. I'm still willing to support such an activity. The
 > keyword is *support*, not *perform*.

Sounds good to me!

Steve


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