Re: New/Updated Packages in Pre-Releases - April 30

Jeff> Steve Youngs writes: Jeff> |--==> "JM" == Jeff Mincy <jmincy(a)muniversal.com&gt; writes: JM> A have a fair amount of trouble downloading the prereleases. Jeff> Is it just the packages in 'Pre-Releases' or do you have the same Jeff> trouble with any package? Jeff> Pre-releases are only available from xemacs.org Jeff> I have trouble downloading packages in general from ftp.xemacs.org. Jeff> I'm likely to get some sort of ftp error (200 people limit?) See http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsServices.html#1 Jeff> from xemacs.org. It appears that when an ftp error occurs the Jeff> package downloader hangs until I do ^G, then I have to answer Jeff> some y-or-n question about the *ftp* process, and then a warning Jeff> that the ftp can't be killed. Jeff> I suspect that the problem is that ms windows doesn't support kill Jeff> and efs is trying to kill the ftp. Jeff> Downloading multiple packages at once increase the odds that Jeff> this problem occurs. I was eventually able to download the pre Jeff> release packages singly. Do you have Gnus fetching mail periodically? I found this to be interfering with package downloads, but haven't diagnosed it beyond circumstantial evidence. Adrian Jeff> Note that the package downloader did not work at all until Jeff> I made the following change: Jeff> (setq efs-tmp-name-template "c:/TEMP/efs") ;; was "C:\\windows\\TEMP/efs" Jeff> efs was passing c:\windows\TEMP/efsxxxx to ftp which then complained Jeff> about c:windowsTEMP/efsxxxx not existing. JM> I don't have a Pre-Releases in 21.1 Jeff> It's in XEmacs 21.1.14 Jeff> Ok. I'm on 21.1.13. Jeff> -jeff -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/