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Re: emacs 22.1?


On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
>>The latest is the emacs source package you get when choosing to
>>download the package source with setup.exe.  Other than that, have a
>>close look into http://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
>OK, I've done this.  But i miss some information for a newbie like me
>(e.g.  What is the best way to setup an environment for building the
>packages?  What toolchain to use?  ...?).  May be there is a maintainer
>tutorial and/or FAQ?  Or something like a mentoring program for new
>maintainers?

This is one of those situations where a certain amount of core
competence is required.  If you are not really familiar with the concept
of building packages (especially a package as presumably large and
complicated as emacs) you might want to think twice about what you're
volunteering to do.  How can you possibly maintain and support a package
if you don't have any idea about how to build it?  How are you going to
deal with bug reports?

I'm *really* not trying to be mean here.  I'm just trying to make sure
that you understand what you're getting into.

cgf

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