Re: emacs support for 28/29

>>> "HN" == Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> writes:

> On 10/7/22 9:13 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Hi
>> Some months ago, we discussed to upgrade the fink emacs version to
>> either 28 or 29. I sort of volunteered (I am an active GNU emacs user (I
>> even use the developer version)), but only found the time now to
>> look into this.
>> I, however, forget the details how to provide the necessary patch.
>> Can somebody please enlighten me, again.

> Thanks for this.

> Ideally, you'd make a new pull request at
> <https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/pulls> that contains the
> commit(s) to get emacs28 or emacs29.

Ok, although in principle that should be doable it might take some time.

Remind me please in order to get the whole source tree on my machine I clone 
https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions.git

Is this correct?

That is around 2 GB?

> I don't want to feature creep, but would it be possible to also update
> emacsen-common?

Oh, that is a debian approach, where low bandwith was a problem, sigh.

I personally prefer everything in one package but I can see that this might  break things on other places. I will have a look

> Hanspeter


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