Michael> We've had this discussion about a zillion times. I'm Michael> grateful for all patches I get, but I'll continue to Michael> insist that the XEmacs package release schedule follow Michael> the official one. Once upon a time, this was handled Hello Michael, what is your official release schedule for a new dired package which includes my patch http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-patches/199908/msg00033.html 1999-08-16 Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; * dired-uu.el: Ditto. * dired-shell.el: Ditto. * dired.el: Replace "-c" where `shell-command-switch' should be used instead. or equivalent. ! runs the command dired-do-shell-command is currently broken in native Windows NT XEmacs! Adrian Michael> differently, and it ended in a bug and maintenance Michael> nightmare. It's extremely rare that I can "just apply" Michael> some patch sent to me, so I really need to read and Michael> understand the stuff that's sent to me before it gets Michael> into a release.