Re: [AUCTeX-devel] beamer & preview

[Andrea Crotti]

On 08/06/2011 10:43 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Andrea Crotti (2011-07-03) writes:
> At the moment the query is hard-coded.  You could probably define a
> keyboard macro to do the work for you.

Ok thanks I'll try this way, but why making it hard coded in general?
> > And last thing, isn't there any plan to switch the repository to
> > something more modern (at least subversion)?
> At least I don't plan to do something like this.  And AFAICS, especially
> subversion would not offer anything worthwhile over CVS in the context
> of AUCTeX development.

I'm not sure about that, one immediate improvement is that you
could get a lot more developers helping out. I frankly don't contribute
to any CVS project because I hate it so much, and other people
also do the same...

Anyway another cool thing about subversion is that is a very good
API to use also other systems, such as Git with git-svn or similars.

> I hope that people contribute to a project because they are interested
> in the software or the matter, or because they need a certain feature,
> not because the project uses a specific VCS.

If the tools are too stupid even people that would like to contribute
will soon lose their excitement.
I remember I've seen a libreoffice talk, they were saying that passing to
Git from CVS brought a huge increment in the number of developers.