Re: Release candidate for XEmacs 21.4.4 / my vacation

APA> I am dying to see this feature in 21.4.4, or at least 21.4.5. Don't call it a "feature", then. Feature freeze was six months ago.... ;-) Honestly, it's not fair to do this just before handing off to Vin. Not to mention to all the other people who want "just one safe little" feature. It's not much fun saying "no" all the time, but we really have to if "stable" is going to have any meaning. APA> Can I do anything to get this feature in? Ben sez, just add the Lisp code to init.el. Alternatively, you could make a package, which people could require in init.el. Then when we get it fixed, we have core XEmacs provide the same symbol and the package will just wither away. With a little care, it could be a generic solution: the package would be "lisp-updates" or some such. Each separate fix would have its own feature. I suppose we'd need to make the feature "list" into a hash-table because these would probably accumulate pretty quickly. Alternatively, we could obsolete the symbols with every major release (so there would be "lisp-updates-21.1" and so on). What do you think, Steve? This would really make life nicer for the users and easier for the core maintainers, but it definitely increases the burden on you---these packages could end up being quite large. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."