Re: regexp-opt GNU "sync"?
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]> writes: Hrvoje> Unless I'm mistaken, regexp-opt is maintained by an FSF Hrvoje> Emacs person. I don't see that we have a choice but to Hrvoje> sync it. Good, let's do it, and maintain the minimum amount of backward compatibility. Hrvoje> Didn't they break compatibility with themselves as well, Hrvoje> or is it yet another case of importing an alpha FSF Hrvoje> feature into a production XEmacs and then watching them Hrvoje> change the API? This was work done by Karl Hegbloom in like 1997. Didn't we get shy groups well before GNU did? I wouldn't be surprised if GNU simply came up with a better API independently, while nobody was looking. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.