xemacs vs emacs

[David Kastrup]

Mats Lidell <matsl at xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>>> David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
>
> David> Let's not forget that this has taken _XEmacs_ developers two
> David> years.  So it seems complicated enough 
> David> [...]
>
> I'm afraid that lead times in hobby projects don't say much about
> whether things are complicated or not. Sometimes, always!?, the
> complicated and interesting stuff gets solved long before the boring
> maintenance jobs. This is a maintenance job.

It does not exactly give the most active impression of XEmacs
development (or the general fitness of the infrastructure and
procedures) if boring maintenance jobs (that presumably anybody could
easily do since the infrastructure is so well-documented and useful)
take years to get done.

Whatever.  Let's see where the code leads.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum