Re: Dired 7.10alpha package available for testing

Michael> I've finally zipped through most of the outstanding Michael> patches for Dired, applied them, did some work of my own, Michael> and checked a new Dired into the packages CVS repo, Michael> dubbed 7.10 AKA package version 1.10. Michael> Please give it a try and let me know how it goes, whether Michael> good or bad. Note that I need both success and failure Michael> reports to make an actual package release. Please try Michael> Dired on as many systems as you have access to, and use Michael> it via EFS to remotely edit directories on as many Michael> systems as possible. I'm especially interested in Michael> Windows, as I don't test on that platform myself. Let me Michael> know (via personal email) how it goes. Michael> Dired 7.10 no longer provides its own diff-parsing mode Michael> in diff.el but instead relies on Stefan Monnier's Michael> diff-mode which is not in the XEmacs package tree yet. I Michael> have finished a port of diff-mode and expect it to be Michael> integrated within the next few days. Until then, you can Michael> still use Dired, it's only the diff functionality which Michael> won't work. Michael> Since the absence of diff-mode also does affect Michael> compilability, I've put a binary package at Michael> http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/software/efs/dire... Hello Michael! I have finally installed the above. It shows dired-version 7.10 after installation. dired-diff works fine! dired-do-shell-command works too, at long last! This is looking good. Best regards, Adrian Michael> Steve (Youngs, that is): Under no circumstances release Michael> the present code until I give the thumbs-up. Michael> I apologize for taking so long with this. It's not as Michael> easy as it looks. I appreciate your willingness to help Michael> test Dired. Michael> -- Michael> Cheers =8-} Mike Michael> Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/