>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry James
<james(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Jerry> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org>, on 09 Jun 2002
Jerry> at 23:22:23
Jerry> +0900 you wrote:
> Again, it probably doesn't have anything to do with your
crash
> here, but if you value stability you will accept the default
> and not link to ESD. It's evil, see PROBLEMS.
Jerry> I've been meaning to ask about this. Why is it that 21.4
Jerry> defaults to NOT using ESD, but 21.5 defaults to using ESD?
Jerry> If ESD is really that evil, shouldn't 21.5 also not use it
Jerry> by default?
Yes, I just haven't gotten around to doing the patch. 21.5 is not
high on my priority list.
Also, for some reason, we don't get 21.5-related complaints about ESD
symptoms. So maybe whatever it is has been fixed in the ESD bleeding
edge. Or maybe 21.5 is currently too broken to notice ;-)
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