Re: Fwd: sign off on XEmacs 21.5
Vladimir G. Ivanovic writes:
I use XEmacs daily, and I'm satisfied with its quality level. I
speak
of a mon-Mule, Linux build only. I hope people who use different
builds pipe up with any release blockers.
?? If you're using a non-Mule Linux build, there's not a heck of a lot
in 21.5 that is an improvement over 21.4.21 that I can see, except
Xft. OTOH, there are several new crashes, including one in the
crypt++/jkacompr code reported today.
In terms of application support, something needs to be done about
synching to GNU Emacs.
In the Xft builds, there are a number of things that absolutely need
to be done before a 'net release. First, the menus must be made to
work and the X resources vs. Lisp ways of specifying fonts must be
reconciled. Second, the "cursor turd" problem needs to be fixed.
Third, there needs to be a sane approach to dealing with multilingual
buffers.
I've glanced at the open issue list, and I don't see anything
with a
priority of "urgent" that should hold up a release.
That's because nobody cares enough to even look at the list and flag
some issues as urgent. There are plenty of issues that would really
annoy anybody who is currently a GNU Emacs user who tries XEmacs.
The bottom line is that, as David Kastrup points out, we could just
rename the current code base as "21.6" and call it a public release.
But I don't think it would be good for our reputation to do so.
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