Re: [jdee-devel] [jdee-users] Call to Fork or simply for JDEE TODO items
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From: Paul L. <la...@ma...> - 2013-04-30 19:25:40
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Sounds like a lot of share the experience of going to XEmacs at a time it was better than GNU Emacs. I like many others went back to GNU Emacs after they implemented all the missing features XEmacs had the GNU didn't. XEmacs (thanks to Jamie for a much needed emacs "revolution") did what it needed IMO, but maintaining both is a lot of extra effort. I tried to look for an XEmacs user that was willing to maintain it but no one stepped forward. For this reason JDEE officially no longer is supported under XEmacs. On Apr 29, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Shyamal Prasad <sh...@me...> wrote: >>>>>> "Henry" == Henry S Thompson <ht...@in...> writes: > > Henry> Paul Landes writes: > >>> dependent on CEDET. I have nothing bad to say about CEDET but >>> it's current integration with Emacs post 23 has been non-compat >>> and created a lot of issues for installation. > > Henry> I spent a full day over the weekend attempting to get a > Henry> version of the current CEDET (from the bzr repo) to load into > Henry> XEmacs (21.5 beta 33) and failed miserably. XEmacs > Henry> compatability is clearly not on the CEDET agenda at all. I'm > Henry> not coding in Java right now myself, but when I get back to > Henry> doing so I'd be sorry if JDEE had become an Emacs-only > Henry> toolset. . . > > As far as I can tell you are correct about CEDET and XEmacs. I'd tried > doing the same late last year and gave up pretty quickly. This thread > seems to confirm that XEmacs is not on the CEDET agenda unless some one > asks: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=514E0C0E.6000909%40siege-engine.com&forum_name=cedet-devel > > I was an XEmacs user until 2004. I have since switched to using the GNU > version exclusively, and lost track of where XEmacs is. It does seem > that the momentum in Emacs development has switched to the GNU version > in the last decade (?). > > I'm personally biased towards making JDEE a GNU Emacs only toolset > because I'm not sure there is a community of users who will make it work > for XEmacs (or even just one user). The final straw is that CEDET seems > impossible to use on XEmacs, at least to a casual user like me, which > knocks JDEE off that platform. > > Cheers! > Shyamal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr > _______________________________________________ > jdee-devel mailing list > jde...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-devel |