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felix@laas.fr (Francois Felix INGRAND) writes:
>I was told that a version of Epoch for NeXT existed and was available
>cs.uiuc.edu.
>I spend much time and money to download the 5 megabytes of this archive (named
>epoch-next.tar.Z in the directory pub/epoch-files/epoch) only to discover:
>- there are 2 executables, each being 2.1 megabytes. 
>- there are all .o,  a new-temacs (1.7 mega) and a temacs (1.7 mega)
>- these executables hard wire the load path of emacs.
>- if you try to recompile, you get mucho errors, and no README or HELP to
>explain how the guy got the binaries...
>- the archive does not contains the lisp library,

>All that to say that I am really pissed. I basically downloaded 5 mega of
>useless garbage. I do not know who put this archive in place, but he may as
>well remove it...

Um - the lisp library is the same as Emacs, except for the epoch-lisp
stuff, which, again, is the same across different epochs.  You can
change the load-path trivially.

Clearly, it would be better to package the binaries separately, but if
they work (which is not clear from your post), they are quite usable,
and no less good than your own recompilation, unless, of course, you
want to actually hack them somewhat.

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