auctex/CHANGES

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

    David> I don't really think it an appropriate idea to distribute a
    David> set of files compiled with different than the standard
    David> settings without also distributing the responsible scripts
    David> and settings.

We do distribute everything, just not as part of the prebuilt AUCTeX
package.  If it is not possible to check out the package tree from CVS
and rebuild the package, that is a bug and we will fix it.

    David> is there anything wrong in just checking in the requisite
    David> precompiled files in the same form as they are already in
    David> the tarball?

As a solution to the current issue, yes, there is.  That means our
users can't build modified versions using our framework, and that's
not acceptable to us.


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