Are these Emacs ports still useful?

Joseph Mingrone jrm at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 23 23:14:14 UTC 2017


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Joseph Mingrone <jrm at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu at utahime.org> writes:

>> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at FreeBSD.org>
>> Subject: Are these Emacs ports still useful?
>> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:29:51 -0400

>>> A quick scan suggests that these port may have passed their usefulness.
>>> Could you speak up if they are still useful or if you feel they should
>>> be removed?
>> (snip) 
>>> - editors/apel (2010 source)
>>>   - editors/flim (2007 source)
>>>     - editors/semi (2003 source)

>> They are required by www/emacs-w3m.

>> Regards.

> They are dependencies for www/emacs-w3m, but are they really required?
> Upsreams [1,2] say apel and friends are only required with quite old
> versions of Emacs that were released around 2001.

> Regards,

> Joseph

> [1] The original emacs-w3m source, http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/, says
> with Emacs 21.1 (released in 2001) "No additional packages are
> required."  Other sources, such as [2] have made fixes to the last
> release from this source.

> [2] The melpa source,
> https://github.com/emacsorphanage/w3m/ has no other elisp dependencies.

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