XEmacs 21.5 beta and FC 9 preview

[SL Baur]

On 4/22/08, Ville Skyttä <scop at xemacs.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, SL Baur wrote:
>  > I've had the "opportunity" to install the Fedora Core 9 preview.  After
>  > a long post-installation hunt managed to track down where they had
>  > hidden XEmacs and discovered that they're installing 21.5 beta.
>  >
>  > I suppose we should be grateful they're still including us at all, given
>  > their track record,
>
>
> I maintain the xemacs, xemacs-packages ("essential" packages from Sumo) and
>  xemacs-packages-extra (the rest from the Sumo) packages in Fedora, but I
>  don't know what you're referring to with "their track record" here.  Could
>  you elaborate?

Stuff from before your time, I believe.  Red Hat preinstalls in Japan with a
default .emacs that would bomb XEmacs, moving us off the basic installation
and into "power tools", ....  (And XEmacs from the very first releases I made
supported RPM installs off the canonical download site).

I do note that FSF Emacs got the same shabby treatment we did - put in
the "Office" part of the installation.

Chuck Thompson warned me about this when I took over after 19.14, XEmacs
will always be my baby, even though other capable hands are in charge now.

>  > but are we O.K. with a 21.5 beta being part of Fedora Core 9?
>
>
> This is nothing new.  Fedora Core 6 (released in 2006) was the first Fedora
>  version that shipped XEmacs 21.5.x.  Other distributions had moved on to
>  21.5.x series even earlier.

Just asking.

>  BTW, it's "Fedora X", not "Fedora Core X" since Fedora 7 ;)

Noted.  I joined the Fedora project this evening, btw.

-sb