Re: [Mac-emacs-users] make better use of SourceForge?

[Andrew C. <ak...@cs...>]

> Maybe it would be a good thing to make better use of SourceForge for
> this project? In particular the bug tracker could be useful.
> 
> Also, I'd love if the current binary version (and the source maybe,
> too), could also be made available via the File Release System. From
> Andrew's site, I only get 4-5KB/s, while from SourceForge I can get
> much faster speeds.
> 
> If there are techincal problems with this (e.g. FRS giving you
> trouble or whatever), I am willing to help out if I somehow can. I
> am experienced with the use of SF, being admin and member in various
> other projects.  Or maybe you have other fundamental reasons for not
> making more use of SF, in that case, maybe you can enlighten us as
> to what those are?  Thanks!
> 
> Just my two cent of course :) Please keep up the good work,
> 
> Max

Hi Max,

Thank you for your suggestion.

My idea is to eventually merge all Mac OS code into the main Emacs
source distribution.  Then we can use already existing mechanisms that
support the development of Emacs, such as the GNU FTP site (and its
mirror sites), the CVS repository and other services at
savannah.gnu.org, the USENET newsgroups comp.emacs and gnu.emacs.*,
etc.  For binaries, I actually have access to a mac/emacs directory at
ftp.gnu.org.  I should make use of it.  Once these are done I will
phase out the use of the SourceForge site.

I am not doing this for "religious" reasons.  When the Mac code
becomes part of Emacs, it will seem strange to support the project
separately on SourceForge.  It made sense when it was still a patch.

Currently I'm in the middle of a big move and not able to work on
this.  I'm work on Emacs again in a few weeks.

I hope everyone thinks this is reasonable.

Andrew.