[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: emacs.app_9.0pre2-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Adrian Robert]

On Dec 9, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Gürkan Sengün <gurkan at linuks.mine.nu> writes:
>
>> For the curious and history:
>> 1992 18.x http://www.linuks.mine.nu/openstep/emacs.png
>> 2005 23.x http://gnu.ethz.ch/emacs.app.png
>
> So your team will "release" emacs 23.x in 2005, while we didn't
> even manage to release 22.x this year ...

Hi,

I'm probably to blame here -- I've been using the term "emacs-23" in  
some places as a shorter, snappier alternative to "GNU emacs CVS,  
unicode-2 branch", to indicate exactly what version of GNU Emacs  
Emacs.app is based on.  I didn't intend for it to be misleading, or  
suggest that emacs-23 is in any way due for release soon, or that  
emacs-23 definitely WILL be based on the unicode-2 branch.  Maybe, to  
avoid confusion, it's best to just drop use of the term "emacs 23"  
completely for now?

I assume though that a Debian package for Emacs.app or any other  
unicode-2 based version won't constitute "release" of GNU Emacs any  
more than the existing package based on emacs CVS HEAD constitutes a  
22.x release.

BTW, in response to Gürkan's original email, I wanted to point out  
that Emacs.app is still a work-in-progress -- independently of the  
state of CVS/Unicode-2 (which seems pretty good), there is much to be  
done with keyboard input, toolbars, etc., all outlined here: http:// 
emacs-app.sourceforge.net/KNOWN-ISSUES.txt and here: http://emacs- 
app.sourceforge.net/TODO.txt .  Nonetheless, Emacs.app is perfectly  
serviceable as a daily editor under GNUstep and OS X right now, if  
you don't need those functions.  It is, however, hard to build under  
GNUstep, which is part of the reason for working on a Debian package.

thanks,
Adrian