editors/xemacs21 not updated for four years

Gary Jennejohn garyj at jennejohn.org
Sun Apr 6 14:08:49 PDT 2003


Jack Twilley writes:
> The Makefile hasn't changed for this port since 24 Apr 1999.  I
> reported a bug to the XEmacs folks and they told me that I was so far
> behind they weren't supporting this version any more.  This port
> should be regularly maintained.
> 
> If Michael is no longer interested in maintaining the port, I am
> willing to take on the responsibility.  I've already started going
> through the porter's handbook, and I know a couple of committers who
> have been willing to assist me in the past with technical issues.
> 

Michael Elbel hasn't maintained this port in years, I'm now the
maintainer.

There's been no reason to update this since it remained stable as
21.1.14 for so long.

What's currently xemacs-devel is actually the stable version of xemacs.
I need to get portmgr to dp a repo copy to xemacs and then I'll probably
delete the current xemacs21 port, since it's "historical". xemacs-devel
will then track 21.5.

However, if you really want to take over maintainership of the xemacs ports
then you're welcome to do so.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj at jennejohn.org gj at freebsd.org gj at denx.de



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