Commit emacs updates? (#23165)

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Wed Jan 13 18:47:29 PST 2010


On Jan 13, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Dan Ports wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:12:43PM -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> I just built both ports on SL and it built.  I haven't done any testing 
>> besides that, but I'll commit them.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> I'd like to add openmaintainer to the maintainer fields to make it 
>> easier for other people to commit since you don't have commit rights 
>> (yet).  Let me know what you think.
> 
> OK with me -- one of my main concerns is that such an important (IMO)
> port not be abandoned, and that should help.
> 
> Incidentally, I should point out that I expect to someday add a
> emacs-devel that builds a CVS snapshot and can also be installed
> concurrently (in the same way that both emacs and emacs22 can be
> installed). I haven't yet gotten around to it since emacs23 is a
> recent release so there hasn't been much of a need for something newer.

Dan,

You know what else would be useful is for emacs and emacs-app to share the same emacs tarball.  Right now one is gzip and the other is bzip2 and they are dropped into different distfile directories.  That would save an additional download.

Regards,
Blair



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