xemacs vs emacs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Reiner Steib writes:

 > I think what you wrote [...] might give the wrong impression that
 > an XEmacs user receives more current and supported versions of
 > "third-party" packages such as Gnus and AUCTeX compared to using
 > Emacs.

But that impression is not wrong, depending on versions.  Any user of
XEmacs 21 -- released in 1998! -- has access to a version of Gnus and
AUCTeX more recent than that distributed with any version of Emacs 20
or Emacs 21 -- of which there are known to be many users.  Emacs
policy toward those users is "Upgrade Emacs or lose support", which is
reasonable, given resource constraints ... but it is not XEmacs's policy.