Re: XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service" is released.
At 03:01 AM 10/26/01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
So? You still knew a lot more than I did and could have saved me a
fair amount of time with a more precise description. There are 550
lines of ChangeLog, I don't remember all the patches in detail.
Instead, I had to wallow through the code to figure out what was going
on. Please?
I don't understand. What is the problem that you are referring to? Why
didn't the patch cut it?
"Why?" Well, IMO there's no excuse for an _enhancement_
that
introduces warnings in a stable branch. I should have just let it
wait for 21.4.6, but you were in a hurry to get it in.
Actually I was assuming that you weren't going to put it in :)
As for the "disaster," yes, I've screwed up. I wanted a
Windows code
I don't think its a disaster. Kudos to you for actually getting something
out there.
freeze, I didn't get it, I tried to manage the code base anyway.
I've
made too many mistakes. Fortunately, most resulted in build problems,
so people wasted some time (my apologies) but hopefully no data.
I think you did ok.
So now we're going to fix that. I just wanted to get this
release
out, the branch created, and
"Tag, you're it."
:)
Not an edifying motivation, but the beneficial effect on the Windows
port should be obvious very shortly. Why postpone that? That's the
way I felt about it, unfortunately for 21.4.5.
Hey, I'm glad that you did it. It remains to be seen how I will get on.
andy