Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
> > I will still need some time. I took some time to get XEmacs compile
> > using egcs but now it does. This building trouble is slowing me
> > down,
>
> Why do you persist on using bleeding-edge compilers? Beta-testing
> both the compiler and the editor don't go together well.
Oh well, it runs... ;-) (I'm still fine tuning the options -- currently '-O3
-mpentium -fno-caller-saves' makes it)
> > Where are the other DnD maintainers? Or am I alone...
> [...]
> > Overall I don't think that I can get all changes done within the
> > next week. I'm to busy with other things. But I will try to get it
> > done as fast as possible.
>
> Jonathan Harris also touched the relevant code. But you said you
> would perform the switch to the misc-user-event type. If you cannot
> do it by XEmacs 21, then I think we should disable the DND code.
The current code (I just finished compiling 21.0-b37...) works fine for OffiX
with the sperated events and CDE should also run (last time it did). But the
interface to the two is quite different and undefined. So disabling the DnD
code is perhaps the best solution. Setting the configure defaults to 'no' and
adding a note the the INSTALL and configure.usage that this was done because
of the indifferent state of the two should be enough.
Another problem are the currently supported protocols: CDE might be used by
some masochists, but OffiX is in a state of desintegration (this is perhaps
only my opinion). For a real release the implementations of Xde, Xdnd, Motif
and perhaps MSWindows are missing. But I know that I'm keeping this
development down because the internal API to all this DnD stuff is missing.
I will do my best to get it done as soon as possible.
Regards,
Oliver.
