Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Further TikZ patches

[Uwe Brauer]

   > 2016-04-13 20:20 GMT+02:00 Matthew Leach <address@hidden>:

   > I have XEmacs installed on my computer but I don't use it.  I just
   > compile AUCTeX from time to time to make sure there aren't huge errors
   > (like functions not defined there.  BTW, to be sure I'm not going to
   > introduce a function not defined in XEmacs I often grep the name of
   > that function in AUCTeX source: if it's already used odds are good
   > it's available, otherwise I fire up XEmacs and see if it's defined)
   > but of course in this way I can't catch runtime errors.

   > At some point we should discuss whether to continue supporting XEmacs:
   > I don't know AUCTeX users apart from Uwe running XEmacs and I know
   > he's also moving to GNU Emacs.  In addition, since we started using
   > debbugs, he's been the only one to report bugs while running XEmacs:
   > 
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/search.cgi?phrase=xemacs&search=search&skip=0&attribute_field=package&attribute_operator=STREQ&attribute_value=auctex&order_field=date&order_operator=NUMA&max_results=100
   >  Bug tracker isn't a good sample of our community, but sometimes I
   > think we're still supporting XEmacs for just one person.  Sorry, Uwe
   > :-)

Sigh.
In a nutshell and still as the responsible, official Xemacs auctex
package manager, I would say:
please consider a solution such that

(if (featurep 'xemacs) dont-implement-that-feature)

But don't make auctex incompatible with Xemacs in the sense that it
cannot anymore byte compiled.

Outside that nutshell this calls for a rant. But I feel to tired (and I
am too busy) for that.

Uwe