xemacs repo: a lot of anonymous branches: evolve: add named branches
Uwe Brauer
oub at mat.ucm.es
Mon Aug 27 19:53:12 UTC 2018
> Hello, Uwe.
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 18:47:02 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> It's also a project which, while maybe not yet pushing up the daisies,
> is not in the rudest of health, either.
I know :'( I contributed for several years to one of their package and
I recall very vividly the death message of Steven Turnbull.
> (For non-native English speakers, it's nearly dead.)
Nicely put ;-).
But there seems an attempt to recover (at least there are commits every
second day or so, although better not to tell how many contributers
do commit.....)
> So why spend time and effort on such a non-vigorous project? I'm
> curious, too.
In this particular case: I had an very old (non official) patch, which I
needed to apply every time I wanted to compile the whole beast. So at the
end I got curious and searched for the version the patch was against.
Well and then I discovered the mess and became, let's put it this way,
academically interested in the question.
Uwe
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