Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move

Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by davexunit on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:28AM (#6999465)

>make a working modern package manager

package.el works great.

>integrate the browser

That may actually be possible in the future, see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsXWidgets

>perhaps rewrite emacs from scratch

That is just silly. The current Elisp interpreter might be replaced with an Elisp implementation on top of the Guile VM. That would be quite the big upgrade, technically speaking.

>unfortunately lighttable is staying closed for much too long

I agree, I don't have much faith in the "it will be free eventually, just trust us" development model. If the project really wanted to be community friendly then the source code would have been free from the beginning.

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Re:Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move by sixthloginorso on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:17AM (#6999639)

This XWidgets project for Emacs has a rather unfortunate name, given that there is already a well-known GUI toolkit named wxWidgets.

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