I really need a confirmed install on Win98 before making the
announcement, unfortunately the ftp site seems to be hugely slow now so I
suspect a few people are downloading. If anyone who uses XEmacs on Win98
could try I would be really grateful.
Yesterday I did a complete download and install in Win98SE. Actually,
because of the slowness, I got the packages off a mirror first, and only
downloaded the binary package itself off of
ftp.xemacs.org. The mirrors did
not have it yet, at that time, although it got mirrored later.
Download: OK - no problems
Install: OK - no problems
Use: OK - no problems detected sofar
So, from my observations, the release seems to be GO on Win98SE. I did no
extensive testing because of the issue described below.
In a multi-user Win98 environment, there is a really annoying thing, namely
trying to set $HOME correctly. I still have not figured out a way to reset
$HOME when users log in and out in Win98. (FYI; in Win98 this is mostly used
to allow personalized desktops etc.) I tried (setenv "HOME"
[path-to-home-dir-based-on-user-login-name]) in site-start.el, but apparently
the HOME variable is read really early on during startup, and the user home
directory was already set to "C:\\". I found no way to reset it from within
site-start.el - any hints are appreciated!
It might make sense to consider a tweak that would allow the HOME (or "~")
variable to be set within site-start.el, using the user-login-name as a
variable. I know, this would be ugly, strange, and even outright dangerous.
But isn't that what site-start.el is all about. :)
Camillo