Re: Emacs is coming back - all pleased?

[Mark Harig <idirectscm@aim.com>]

Mark Harig wrote:
> Steffen Sledz wrote:
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>> Eric Blake schrieb:
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>>> Go ahead and send a release announcement, so hopefully you can get
>>> some more testers willing to try the version while it is still
>>> experimental.
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>>
>> Is there a template for such announcements?
>>
>>   
> Because 'etags' has been removed from the standard Emacs distribution, 
> it would be
> good for the announcement and the cygwin.readme for Emacs to notify 
> users that
> they will need to install the (exhuberant) ctags package if they want 
> to generate
> tag files for Emacs Lisp.  This is a standard, documented feature of 
> Emacs so
> users should be made aware of why it will not work if they only 
> install the base
> Cygwin installation plus Emacs.
Correction about the Cygwin README for Emacs: I see that
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs-22.1.README already mentions the exuberant
ctags dependency:

    "Some binaries normally part of the emacs distribution are separated
      to avoid conflicts with other packages. If you need b2m or rcs-ckeckin
      install xemacs-emacs-common package. If you need ctags or etags 
install
      ctags package."

Of course, the 'b2m' and 'rcs-checkin' binaries are already installed by
default because the 'xemacs-emacs-common' package is a requirement
of the Cygwin Emacs package.

>
> Alternatively, the 'etags' program could be removed from the ctags 
> package
> (which still provides etags via the '-e' command-line option) and 
> restored to
> the Emacs package.
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