Re: Pre-Release Packages.

APA> That rings a bell. It's very faint though. Does anyone on APA> xemacs-beta remember [the long file-names] issue? Stephen> Yes. Search the archives; Sandy Wambold gave a pretty complete Stephen> dissertation. (Maybe it was on xemacs-review? :-( ) Stephen> Sorry I don't remember the full discussion. Stephen> I think the problem there was only with the extremely Stephen> deeply nested JDE stuff; it shouldn't happen with Stephen> ada-mode. You need pathnames of more than about 100 Stephen> characters. I don't understand why this hasn't bitten me during my last few package updates over the months. Have you changed anything in your process regarding the creation of packages? Have you installed different versions of gzip and tar? For now I was able to fix the problem by using '(package-admin-install-function (quote package-admin-install-function-mswindows) t) instead of '(package-admin-install-function (quote package-admin-default-install-function) t) I was able to update all of the packages I use, including gnus. I have steered clear of a bbdb upgrade and am no longer using tm. dired is still broken on Windows after all these years, so I use my own version with local fixes and can't test your experimental version. Here is what I have installed now: Latest Installed Package name Vers. Vers. Description =============================================================================== * Sun 1.13 1.12 Support for Sparcworks. ada 1.10 1.10 Ada language support. apel 1.20 1.20 A Portable Emacs Library. Used by XEmacs MIME support. * auctex 1.24 1.22 Basic TeX/LaTeX support. * bbdb 1.12 1.10 The Big Brother Data Base c-support 1.16 1.16 Basic single-file add-ons for editing C code. calc 1.14 1.14 Emacs calculator calendar 1.16 1.16 Calendar and diary support. cc-mode 1.23 1.23 C, C++ and Java language support. cookie 1.13 1.13 Spook and Yow (Zippy quotes). crisp 1.12 1.12 Crisp/Brief emulation. debug 1.14 1.14 GUD, gdb, dbx debugging support. * dired 1.09 1.08 Manage file systems. edebug 1.13 1.13 An Emacs Lisp debugger. - edict 1.12 ----- MULE: Lisp Interface to EDICT, Kanji Dictionary ediff 1.28 1.28 Interface over GNU patch. edit-utils 1.55 1.55 Miscellaneous editor extensions, you probably need this. edt 1.11 1.11 DEC EDIT/EDT emulation. efs 1.22 1.22 Treat files on remote systems the same as local files. - egg-its 1.25 ----- MULE: Wnn (4.2 and 6) support. SJ3 support. eicq 1.03 1.03 ICQ Client developed and tested on Linux x86; only supported on that platform elib 1.08 1.08 Portable Emacs Lisp utilities library. emerge 1.09 1.09 Another interface over GNU patch. - eshell 1.01 ----- Command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp eterm 1.13 1.13 Terminal emulation. eudc 1.33 1.33 Emacs Unified Directory Client (LDAP, PH). footnote 1.13 1.13 Footnoting in mail message editing modes. forms 1.13 1.13 Forms editing support (obsolete, use Widget instead). frame-icon 1.09 1.09 Set up mode-specific icons for each frame under XEmacs fsf-compat 1.08 1.08 FSF Emacs compatibility files. games 1.13 1.13 Tetris, Sokoban, and Snake. gnats 1.12 1.12 XEmacs bug reports. gnus 1.53 1.53 The Gnus Newsreader and Mailreader. hm--html-menus 1.16 1.16 HTML editing. idlwave 1.23 1.23 Editing and Shell mode for the Interactive Data Language igrep 1.08 1.08 Enhanced front-end for Grep. ilisp 1.14 1.14 Front-end for Inferior Lisp. ispell 1.22 1.22 Spell-checking with GNU ispell. jde 1.24 1.24 Java language and development support. - leim 1.17 ----- MULE: Quail. All non-English and non-Japanese language support. - locale 1.18 ----- MULE: Localized menubars and localized splash screens. - lookup 1.07 ----- MULE: Dictionary support mail-lib 1.35 1.35 Fundamental lisp files for providing email support. mailcrypt 2.07 2.07 Support for messaging encryption with PGP. mew 1.13 1.13 Messaging in an Emacs World. mh-e 1.13 1.13 Front end support for MH. mine 1.14 1.14 Minehunt Game. misc-games 1.15 1.15 Other amusements and diversions. - mule-base 1.37 ----- MULE: Basic Mule support, required for building with Mule. net-utils 1.15 1.15 Miscellaneous Networking Utilities. os-utils 1.25 1.25 Miscellaneous O/S utilities. pc 1.19 1.19 PC style interface emulation. pcl-cvs 1.51 1.51 CVS frontend. - pcomplete 1.01 ----- Provides programmatic completion. prog-modes 1.32 1.32 Support for various programming languages. ps-print-nomule 1.05 1.05 Old, but no-Mule safe ps-print psgml 1.21 1.21 Validated HTML/SGML editing. reftex 1.22 1.22 Emacs support for LaTeX cross-references, citations.. rmail 1.12 1.12 An obsolete Emacs mailer. scheme 1.11 1.11 Front-end support for Inferior Scheme. semantic 1.04 1.04 Semantic bovinator. sgml 1.08 1.08 SGML/Linuxdoc-SGML editing. sh-script 1.13 1.13 Support for editing shell scripts. - skk 1.18 ----- MULE: Japanese Language Input Method. slider 1.13 1.13 User interface tool. sounds-au 1.10 1.10 XEmacs Sun sound files. sounds-wav 1.10 1.10 XEmacs Microsoft sound files. speedbar 1.18 1.18 Provides a separate frame with convenient references. strokes 1.08 1.08 Mouse enhancement utility. supercite 1.17 1.17 An Emacs citation tool for News & Mail messages. texinfo 1.20 1.20 XEmacs TeXinfo support. text-modes 1.29 1.29 Miscellaneous support for editing text files. textools 1.12 1.12 Miscellaneous TeX support. time 1.11 1.11 Display time & date on the modeline. - tm 1.26 ----- Emacs MIME support. Not needed for gnus >= 5.8.0 tooltalk 1.13 1.13 Support for building with Tooltalk. tpu 1.12 1.12 DEC EDIT/TPU support. vc 1.25 1.25 Version Control for Free systems. - vc-cc 1.15 ----- Version Control for ClearCase (UnFree) systems. vhdl 1.12 1.12 Support for VHDL. view-process 1.11 1.11 A Unix process browsing tool. viper 1.23 1.23 VI emulation support. vm 1.26 1.26 An Emacs mailer. w3 1.18 1.18 A Web browser. xemacs-base 1.48 1.48 Fundamental XEmacs support, you almost certainly need this. xemacs-devel 1.31 1.31 Emacs Lisp developer support. zenirc 1.09 1.09 ZENIRC IRC Client. =============================================================================== Symbols in the leftmost column: + The package is marked for installation. - The package has not been installed. D The package has been marked for deletion. * The currently installed package is old, and a newer version is available. Useful keys: `return' to select/unselect the current package for installation. `d' to select/unselect the current package for removal. `r' to add any packages required by those selected. `x' to install/delete selected packages. `i' to display additional information about the package in the modeline. `g' to refresh the package list. `v' to toggle between a verbose and non-verbose display. `q' to kill this buffer. Best regards, Adrian Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/