MacOS?

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Fri Feb 1 10:58:18 EST 2008


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Rodney Sparapani writes:
> 
>  > Having said all that, both Carbon and X11 XEmacs seem
>  > clunky.  What would it take to make a Cocoa version of XEmacs?
> 
> A pile of new developers.  As of Saturday when Aidan announced his
> intention to take a vacation from XEmacs work for several months,
> there are ZERO XEmacs developers working on Carbon, and AFAIK we have
> ZERO developers who know anything about Objective-C or Cocoa.
> 
> Feel free to discuss as much as you like, but the current staff is
> showing no signs whatsoever of working on this.
> 
> N.B.  Didier is a XEmacs Reviewer, he looks like the most likely
> candidate for actually doing something (like approving patches) at the
> moment.

That's too bad.  The thing that I'm really missing when I use Cocoa 
Emacs is the XEmacs sumo packages.  What would it take to run the
XEmacs sumo packages with Emacs?  Would it be more work than it is 
worth?  Has anybody tried something like that before?

Rodney



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