Re: [CEDET-devel] Package assoc is obsolete

[David E. <de...@ra...>]

Paul Jewell writes:
> Out of interest - it there any benefit from installing the bzr/git
> versions rather than using the built in version?

Well, as usual, the bzr/git version has the latest fixes and the newest
bugs. It also has a few more features which are not merged into Emacs
for various reasons (like Java projects, Fortran90 parser, clang
completions).

The built-in version from the latest Emacs release (currently 24.3)
should usually be fine. If you're using an older Emacs release, I
recommend installing CEDET from bzr.

As I've written, the CEDET 1.1 version is very old. It is the latest
release Eric's done, but he didn't have time to do a new one since
then. I actually think we should remove this version and simply not do
separate releases anymore. It's not like they're useless, but I think
the time is better spent elsewhere. Also, the CEDET version bundled with
Emacs can be seen as a kind of release, since it falls under the same
feature freeze policy like Emacs proper.

-David