xemacs vs emacs

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> William Xu writes:
>
>  > Does Aquamacs really count as a fork? 
>
> It's a separately maintained branch that will not be merged in the
> foreseeable future but is continuously updated with both syncs to the
> original and new features of its own.  If that's not a fork, what do
> you want to call it?

Separately maintained branch.  The mark of a fork is divergence.

> As I wrote, Aquamacs is a friendly fork.

I thought you read emacs-devel?  On the other hand, reading emacs-devel
might give the impression that Emacs is an unfriendly fork of Emacs,
so...

> But redundant effort is still involved, and the communities are still
> split.

There is not much redundancy I see.  I am not sure about the split
communities, either.  We had split communities in a way for the unicode2
branch and the multitty branch.

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