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To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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Subject: Re: bbdb as package in XEmacs Beta
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From: Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com>
Date: 07 Aug 1997 19:42:39 +0200
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>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:

    Colin> Adrian Aichner writes:
    >>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:
    Colin> I think packages are the right way to go, and if we can
    Colin> show that a relatively unsupported system (unlike Gnus and
    Colin> AucTeX) can be packaged, that would be excellent.

Colin,

it must either be my brain or my eyes. Re-reading your sentence, it
makes perfect sense now, UNLIKE my previous mail to you.

Sorry,

Adrian

    >> I don't understand why you call Gnus a relatively unsupported
    >> package.  There has been a new version of Gnus for each new
    >> xemacs beta.

    Colin> I think my sentence was too convoluted.

    Colin> To rephrase:

    Colin> Unline Gnus and AuxTeX, BBDB is relatively unsupported.

    >> On the other hand bbdb-1.51 has been around for ages now,
    >> right?

    >> Not that it isn't working well :-)

    Colin> Which is why development has kind of hit a brick wall.

    Colin> -- Colin



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