Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Future of the Emacs/AUCTeX bundle

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> Since Emacs 22.1 is released and corresponding binaries for Windows are
> provided on ftp.gnu.org, the Emacs/AUCTeX bundle for Windows lost its
> raison d'être to some extent.  So I thought about discontinuing it.
> However, as a user I'd find it really annoying if I had to download and
> install Emacs, all required image libraries, and AUCTeX separately.
>
> Providing this stuff as some sort of plug-in which only has to be
> unpacked into an existing Emacs installation would really be quite
> dangerous if other stuff was already installed into site-lisp or if the
> dir file of the info directory was already changed.
>
> So perhaps we should continue to provide the bundle for users mainly
> interested in using Emacs as an editor for TeX and related languages.  I
> think we should not compete with the binaries provided on ftp.gnu.org,
> so I'd continue to offer selected CVS versions.
>
> What do others think?

"Selected CVS versions" is the key here.  The CVS trunk is going to
destabilize soon, presumably.  Picking a good choice and making the
move to trunk again at a good time is the job of a good third party
distributor.

It would be quite a service to the AUCTeX users on Windows if you were
to do that, but don't underestimate the amount of work going into it.
Maybe one should focus on EMACS_22_BASE for now if that amount of
checking/reassurance does not seem reasonable to invest for you.

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