[PATCH] Support Carbon-specific package paths.

Aidan Kehoe kehoea at parhasard.net
Wed May 14 05:26:49 EDT 2008


 Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > That allows the pure Mac people to be conscientious and Mac about their work
 >  > habits, and the mixed Unix-Mac people to reasonable behaviour by default.
 > 
 > And leaves the XEmacs Dev Team holding the bag.  "Not finding your
 > packages?  Where are they?  Oh, this is a *Mac*, so on odd Tuesdays of
 > months with a 'u' in them it's in .xemacs ... what day did you say it
 > is again?"

This attitude is why we have so few users from Windows. Curious Windows
users install XEmacs, quickly realise they can’t use their muscle memory for
keyboard shortcuts, and despise us for our arrogance in ignoring that in the
default installation. Aquamacs is much more popular than GNU Emacs on the
Mac, as far as I can work out, mainly because it cares about the platform. I
would love to have half that popularity for Carbon XEmacs, and we won’t get
it by ignoring the platform conventions for these things.

 > I think it's a bad idea to be too smart for anybody's good on this
 > kind of thing.

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