Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like

[Richard Stallman]

    I have found the Emacs community to be one of the most responsive and skill=
    ed=20
    group of developers in open-source,

Please do not use the term "open source" to describe what Emacs is in.
Emacs is part of the GNU Project, which is part of the free software
movement.  To call us "open source" is like callingt Kucinich a
Republican.

    , but trying to straddle all the schisms =
    to=20
    support users is really hard.

We sometimes adopt features to make it easier for code
to run in the variants of Emacs.  But I don't really understand
what you mean by "split the setup" here,

    When I hav=
    e a part
    of the emacs setup that is only distributed with some of the emacs forks, o=
    r none
    I split the setup into a separate file.

so I don't understand the issue.

    Inside the file for spelling support I start it with something like this:

What is "the file for spelling support"?  I am totally lost.
Do you mean ispell.el?  If not that, then what?