Hello goodly XEmacs folk - On 9/21/07, Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: Well, as I alluded to in my first message, the changes in Guy's gnuserve_beta.zip are large enough that they make me a little nervous. Installing them in the XEmacs sources could lead to breakage on other platforms that currently support gnuserv. If I were to try to fold those changes into the mainline, I would need to reduce them in size and scope or at least understand them in more detail than I currently do. First, let me assure you that I don't intend to remove anything from XEmacs. This is emacs - we don't remove things, we *add* them. :-) Second, I do have a plan to bring feature parity to winclient by giving it support for line numbers and evaluating arbitrary lisp expressions. (Thanks, Alastair, for your encouragement.) These winclient improvements will take a little time to implement. As an alternative to folding the gnuclient sources into the XEmacs tree, I have developed a Windows-native gnuclient setup kit. (Thanks, Adrian, for helping me debug the kit.) This kit will add gnuclient and gnuserv functionality to the Windows-native XEmacs already installed on your computer. I have copied the setup kit to http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/testing/gnuclient_setup.exe. If you're interested, please download and run the kit. In the best tradition of release engineering, I am leaving town for the weekend and will be out of contact until Sunday night. Don't let that deter you from taking the plunge, however - go ahead and install the setup kit! :-) I've include the readme file from the setup kit. September 21, 2007 Thank you for downloading and installing this setup kit for the gnuclient add-on for XEmacs. This kit is designed to provide a working gnuclient/gnuserv implementation for a Windows-native version of XEmacs. This kit has been tested with and is compatible with the Windows-native XEmacs setup kits that can be found at http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/testing. This setup kit will work with both XEmacs 21.4 and XEmacs 21.5 and will add gnuserv/gnuclient support to all the XEmacs executables it finds under the XEmacs installation folder. So if you have both XEmacs-21.4.20 and XEmacs-21.5-b28 installed in the directory C:\XEmacs, this kit will add gnuclient support to both versions of XEmacs. When this kit is adding gnuclient support to an XEmacs-21.5 executable, several text output windows will be displayed with a dialog box stating: "Messages outputted. XEmacs is exiting." You can safely ignore these messages and click OK. Once this kit has been installed, you will be able to run gnuclient from a shell prompt. Suppose, for example, that you have XEmacs-21.4.20 installed in the folder C:\XEmacs. Then the following commands will enable you to use gnuclient to use XEmacs to edit the file foobar.txt in the current directory: C:\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.20\i586-pc-win32\xemacs.exe & C:\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.20\i586-pc-win32\gnuclient -q foobar.txt Please note that this setup kit does not alter the user or system PATH in any way. If you want to modify the system or user PATH to include the XEmacs binary directory, you must do so manually after the completion of this setup kit. If you want more information about gnuclient and gnuserv, a reasonable starting point is http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnuClient. This kit is built upon the Windows-native gnuserv_beta kit built by Guy Gascoigne-Piggford; for more details about that gnuserv implementation, see http://www.wyrdrune.com/index.html?gnuserv.html. Thank you, Guy. Gnuclient is Free Software, so gnuclient's source code is included in this setup kit and the kit allows you optionally to install the sources onto your computer. To learn more about Free Software, see http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html. This kit was built with Inno Setup, see http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php for details on Inno Setup. Thank you to all those who have contributed to Inno Setup, particularly Jordan Russell. Please report issues or ask questions to the XEmacs beta mailing list: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org. Thank you, Vin Shelton acs(a)xemacs.org -- The Journey by Mary Oliver http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6771&poem=30506 _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta