PGG

[Daiki Ueno]

>>>>> In <ilu1y7d96ha.fsf at h28n1c1o299.bredband.skanova.com> 
>>>>>	Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com> wrote:

> >> And to test the patches... this (in addition to the earlier one's)
> >> works under Emacs 21.2 and XEmacs 21.4.  They are committed to Oort
> >> CVS.
> >
> > In addition, I propose the attached patch to remove dependencies from
> > calist.el and alist.el.

> Thanks.  Those packages seemed rather short though, do you think it is
> a problem if they are included?

I worry about speading pervasive modules over some packages may cause
unnecessary maintainance trouble.  For example, APEL's alist.el once
had a conflict with the XEmacs package version where their own
extension was introduced; the function `vassoc' was not in the upstream
version of APEL, which prevented users updating APEL.

However, though PGG is part of SEMI, the functionalities have nearly
nothing to do with SEMI which tends to provide only a *user interface*
of MIME messages.  It is worth making PGG grown out of SEMI, I think.

> Cannot luna.el be included in Oort too?  Or is it an issue of
> copyrights?  It does say the copyright is hold by FSF (although I
> haven't received an answer from FSF if they indeed have papers for
> it).

Similar to the above reason, if luna.el shipped with Gnus, the
maintainance would be more difficult for developers of luna
applications as well as for FLIM developers.  And furthermore, luna is
still in active development.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno