On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Jan Matejek wrote:
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Hi Horst, hi list,
Horst Günther Burkhardt III napsal(a):
tla-1.3.3 is long deprecated, there is NO reason it should continue to be packaged with current distributions. I propose that OpenSuSE packages tla-1.3.5, which has been stable for quite some time.
actually, i was considering dropping the tla package altogether: - - it is not exactly actively maintained by its author - - suffers badly from "not-invented-here" syndrome - - keeps private versions of certain libraries (notably expat and libneon), which is ... um, not nice, to say the least - - compatibility issues with 64bit systems and newer gcc
Not good enough. I am involved with the SXEmacs project, and use software related to the project (most ironically xetla, an xemacs frontend to tla, then eMoney, xwem, xlib, etc.) Dropping tla is useless. It isn't updated TOO often, its size is MINIMAL, and it is used by several developers still.
Besides, arch is now kind of obsoleted by your favorite variant of git. We thought that nobody uses tla by now (except maybe in legacy setups, but such setups usually don't need newest versions anyway).
You thought wrongly.
I have experimentally set up a tla 1.3.5 package in the BuildService (can be seen in my home project, home:matejcik/tla). If somebody is interested in maintaining it, i will gladly hand it over.
I would gladly maintain it if I were given access to a box that had a
clean openSuSE-factory install on it at all times. If you know how to get
such a shell, I'll gladly take over packaging for tla (if you REALLY can't
find a valid reason to keep doing it yourself).
Also, how likely is it we could get a binary package of SXEmacs ? (I've
asked this here before, but yeah.. I think it's a nice idea and I don't
know how to use buildservice yet...)
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