xemacs vs emacs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Kastrup writes:

 > > As I wrote, Aquamacs is a friendly fork.
 > 
 > I thought you read emacs-devel?

Yes, but in this case I discussed it directly with Stefan and David.
I won't claim their sanction for the word "fork", but they clearly
agree that it's friendly.  Of course neither is happy that the
combination of Apple's IP and FSF policy make a merge impossible, but
neither is anywhere close to advocating a change of FSF policy.  And
of course we can advocate to Apple as much as we like but that won't
affect anything.

Seems friendly enough to me.

 > There is not much redundancy I see.  I am not sure about the split
 > communities, either.

David claims tens of thousands of downloads at each release.  I don't
see those users posting to emacs-devel.  I would expect a couple dozen
based our our experience with Choi's Carbon port of XEmacs.