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To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
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Subject: Re: efs-patches is terminally broken
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From: Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
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In-Reply-To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de's message of 20 Mar 1997 14:14:40 +0100
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>> On 20 Mar 1997 14:14:40 +0100,
>> Michael Sperber(MS) wrote:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kifer <kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU> writes:

Michael> I think EFS isn't ready for integration yet. I reported
Michael> thrice what seems to be a different manifestation a similar
Michael> problem with EFS, but it hasn't been fixed since several
Michael> weeks ago (and I never got an ack from an EFS maintainer).

MS> I guess that's my fault.  I was away for the past week, but will sink
MS> all day tomorrow into EFS if need be.  I'm sorry about this.

Thanks. Your effort has been much appreciated by some.

MS> I'm moderately frustrated that it seems to be expected that every
MS> single problem report gets fixed right away, and that if it's not
MS> something is "not ready for integration".  There's a whole lot of
MS> other problems of similar seriousness in XEmacs as a whole which
MS> haven't been addressed yet.  What are the serious consequences of the
MS> problem Michael reported?  (It *is* the defadvice thing, isn't it.)

Agreed. I had some frustrating problems with ange-ftp not working that
are resolved with efs. Does that mean ange-ftp is "not ready for
integration" and should not be distributed with XEmacs? The bottom
line is that efs is not ange-ftp. Some things behave differently, some
better, some worse. I think the former outweigh the latter, and that
it's better in the long run to stick with efs.

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