XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released.

* XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. "eggplant" is the twenty-sixth in the VEGETABLE series. The successor to XEmacs 21.5.24 "dandelion", "eggplant" adds a clearer and more convenient interface to configuring package locations, and the usual assortment of fixes and improvements. The main purpose of this release is as a "checkpoint" before a large and possibly destabilizing patch to the garbage collector. At this point policy is uncertain, but there is a proposal under discussion to make Marcus Crestani's new incremental garbage collector the default after it's checked in next week. Those who would like to maintain maximum stability may configure with `--disable-newgc'. (`--enable-kkcc' will remain the default, and `--enable-mc-alloc' will be *removed*, as most of its function is included in `--enable-newgc'.) The `--with-package-prefix' option introduced in 21.5.19 has been removed, in favor of a more flexible scheme with either functional or logical specifications: Functional name | Logical name | Default -----------------------+-----------------------+--------------------- --with-user-packages | --with-early-packages | "~/.xemacs" --with-system-packages | --with-late-packages | "$prefix/lib/xemacs" --with-legacy-packages | --with-last-packages | (nil) Each option takes a colon-separated (for MS Windows, semicolon-separated) list of directories as argument. Each directory is interpreted as a "package directory" which may contain one or more of the subdirectories "site-packages", "mule-packages", and "xemacs-packages". Under each of the *-packages subdirectories, any Lisp packages found installed into the lisp, lib-src, info, etc, man, and pkginfo directories in the usual way will have their auto-autoloads and custom-load libraries loaded, and their lisp directory added to LOAD-PATH in the normal startup process. If you have been using `--with-package-prefix=PREFIX', you should get the same effect with `--with-system-packages=PREFIX'. Two crashes have been fixed, in Xft related to fonts with non-ASCII names and in the syntax cache triggered by the combination of cperl-mode and completion.el. Other minor fixes and improvements are listed below, with detailed descriptions in the ChangeLogs. This is the development line. The current series started with XEmacs 21.5.0 (an alias for XEmacs 21.4.0 "Solid Vapor", the first release in the current stable line). 21.5 is the code base for introduction of major new subsystems and fixes to design bugs that experience shows will introduce instability. So far the main effort has been on improved support for Unicode, updates to the build infrastructure, and development of new features in memory allocation. For general information about XEmacs, the developers, and the user community, see our home page, http://www.xemacs.org/ * XEmacs 21.5.25 is "beta" software. The usual "no warranty" disclaimer (see etc/WARRANTY, sections 10 and 11) applies. At this point in time, it is the version that most developers are using for their daily work. However, it is certain that many bugs remain and new ones will be introduced as development proceeds. Be sure to take care to save your work often and follow a regular backup regime. Note that part of the release process requires a build and test cycle with no regressions. However, building and testing on the release engineer's host is all the quality assurance that is done for most beta releases. Make sure you checkpoint to a known good version of XEmacs (a CVS tag or tarball) before overwriting your source tree. * Availability Anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.5 See http://www.xemacs.org/Install/ for more information about building from source. If you already have a 21.5.24 source tree, a patchkit is available in xemacs-21.5.24-21.5.25.patch.gz. This does not update .elcs or .infos, they will be rebuilt when you make XEmacs. If you have an earlier version, you can repeatedly apply patchkits. We thank our hosts at Tux.org, and numerous mirrors around the world, for providing space and bandwidth for distributing XEmacs. Also, if you don't have the packages yet, see http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html. Anonymous (pserver) CVS: Anonymous CVS is available. We are very grateful to the staff at our host, dotsrc.org (formerly SunSITE.dk), for a lot of help and quick response to all our requests. Take care that your Root is set correctly to CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs On platforms with a Bourne shell and find available, something like for r in `find . -name Root`; do echo $CVSROOT > $r; done will convert your entire tree. To make it straightforward to access certain versions of the code, we have a standard tagging policy. To update to release 21.5.25, use the update flag "-r r21-5-25". To update to the current release without referring to it specifically, use the flag "-r r21-5-current-beta". To update to the latest commits in CVS, use the flag "-A". Then rebuild XEmacs. For more details, see http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html or the ViewCVS interface at http://cvs.xemacs.org/ * Brief summary of Changes to XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" Major Features and Backward Incompatible Changes -- Fix: crash due to broken initialization of syntax cache. -- Stephen Turnbull -- Fix: crash due to incomplete Mule-ization of x_font_instance_truename. -- Stephen Turnbull -- Improve: configure UI for packages. -- Mike Sperber User-Visible Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements -- Fix: default char-syntax of CJK to ?w failed. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: missing fonts due to MAX_FONT_COUNT = 5000 isn't infinite any more. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: missing setlocale(3) initialization in Mule. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Improve: Java support in font-lock. -- Martin Buchholz -- Improve: Russian C-x processing. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Improve: use logical "beta" path to downloads. -- Adrian -- New: euc-cn coding system alias for cn-gb-2312. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Update: package download sites. -- Adrian Aichner Build Infrastructure -- Fix: conditionalization of checks for Xft library. -- Mike Sperber -- Fix: deletion of user-created links in distclean. -- Mike Sperber -- Fix: reporting of Xft in Installation. -- Stephen Turnbull -- Improve: cygwin include and no-X Xpm handling in configure. -- Vin Shelton Documentation -- Improve: comments. -- Aidan Kehoe, Stephen Turnbull -- New: node on keyboards with which one can't type Latin. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Update: Info docs for new package-path configuratin syntax. -- Mike Sperber Lisp API -- New: rename command and binding in buffer menu mode. -- Stephen Turnbull Internal API and Implementation -- Fix: "not char-or-int-p: nil" bug in easymenu. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: C++ correctness. -- Marcus Crestani -- Fix: buggy computation of dynarr size. -- Marcus Crestani -- Fix: char/event confusion introduced by a GNU Emacs sync. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: missing hardware-specific X11 keycode initialization. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: syntax errors. -- Andrey Slusar -- Fix: workaround missing d_ino field from 'struct dirent'. -- Rick Rankin -- Fix: x_find_charset_font returned Qunboundp inefficiently. -- Aidan Kehoe -- Fix: x_find_charset_font wasn't Mule-ized. -- Stephen Turnbull -- Improve: Cygwin support in MC_ALLOC. -- Marcus Crestani -- Improve: silence redundant gc cache warning. -- Marcus Crestani -- Improve: syntax cache factoring and documentation. -- Stephen Turnbull -------- ChangeLog Entries from ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2006-02-18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac (Mule): Mark broken test with ####. 2006-02-18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac (Mule): Remove obsolete comment on XIM. 2006-01-30 Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac: Simplify cygwin include and no-X Xpm handling. As of cygwin-1.5.19 (if you're using /bin/gcc), 'gcc -print-file-name=libc.a' (effectively) returns '/lib' instead of '/usr/lib', so we'll use 'gcc -print-search-dirs' instead. 2005-12-29 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * Makefile.in.in (top-distclean-noconfig): Don't delete site-packages xemacs-packages mule-packages site-lisp---those are supposed to stick around. 2005-11-25 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * CHANGES-beta: * configure.ac: Zap --with-package-prefix; instead, add --with-user-packages/--with-early-packages, --with-system-packages/--with-late-packages, and --with-legacy-packages/--with-last-packages. 2005-12-13 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac: Move the checks for the Xft-associated library out of a conditional. 2005-12-23 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac (Xft): Fix typo preventing report of Xft buffers. Remove now-irrelevant comments. 2005-12-22 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac: Three typos fixed. 2005-12-13 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * configure.ac: Move the checks for the Xft-associated library out of a conditional. -------- ChangeLog Entries from etc/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lib-src/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lisp/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2006-02-05 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * easymenu.el: Update copyright. * easymenu.el (easy-menu-all-popups): Add a docstring. * easymenu.el (easy-menu-add): Document a bug, rework the function to preserve any existing non-default mode-popup-menu instead of overwriting it, and not to bother normalising the menu title (nothing else does). * easymenu.el (easy-menu-remove): Restore the default mode-popup-menu instead of leaving an empty one when we remove the last easy-menu popup. 2004-01-19 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * font-lock.el: Add support for not-so recent changes in Java to java-mode. 2006-01-08 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * cmdloop.el (read-quoted-char): Eliminate some char/event confusion introduced by a GNU Emacs sync. 2006-01-06 Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; * package-get.el (package-get-download-sites): Add pt.xemacs.org, as suggested by Rodrigo Ventura. * package-get.el (package-get-pre-release-download-sites): Ditto, with replacement of xemacs-21.5 by beta, which is the logical path to our beta core and package pre-releases. 2005-12-30 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * packages.el (packages-find-all-package-hierarchies): Interpret EMACSPACKAGEPATH as listing package direcories, not hierarchies. This fixes a regression introduced in the change on 2005-01-08. 2005-11-25 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * packages.el (packages-find-package-hierarchies-named): Use `file-name-as-directory' to normalize something which may not have a trailing path separator. * package-get.el (package-get-package-index-file-location): Fix essentially bogus definition. * package-admin.el (package-admin-find-top-directory): Use the existing variables rather than groking the paths from scratch, and greatly simplify. * packages.el (packages-find-all-package-hierarchies): Take into account `configure-early-package-hierarchies', `configure-late-package-hierarchies', `configure-last-package-hierarchies', as set by configure. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * mule/chinese.el: * mule/chinese.el ('euc-china): Removed. Shouldn't have been uncommented in the first place. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * mule/mule-cmds.el (set-language-environment-coding-systems): * mule/mule-cmds.el (init-locale-at-early-startup): Call set-current-locale (the wrapper for setlocale(3)) before checking the current locale, because the C code doesn't. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * mule/chinese.el: Make euc-cn available as a coding system alias for cn-gb-2312, for the sake of consistency with euc-jp, euc-ko and the FSF. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * x-win-sun.el (x-win-init-sun): * x-win-xfree86.el (x-win-init-xfree86): Initialise the hardware-specific mapping from raw keycodes to the US key layout. 2005-12-22 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * buff-menu.el (Buffer-menu-rename): New command. (Buffer-menu-mode-map): Bind it to ?r. -------- ChangeLog Entries from lwlib/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2005-12-21 Andrey Slusar <anrays(a)gmail.com&gt; * xlwmenu.c (make_drawing_gcs): Fix build with gcc 2.95. -------- ChangeLog Entries from man/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2005-11-25 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * lispref/packaging.texi (The User View): * xemacs/startup.texi (Startup Paths): * xemacs-faq.texi (Q2.1.6): Document new configure options and environment variables for package locations. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * xemacs/keystrokes.texi (Keystrokes): Add new node on keyboards with which one can't type Latin. * xemacs/keystrokes.texi (Non-Latin keyboards): Describe the support for falling back to a US key layout on keyboards where typing the Roman alphabet is difficult. -------- ChangeLog Entries from modules/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from netinstall/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2005-11-25 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * reginfo.h (XEMACS_INFO_XEMACS_EARLY_PACKAGES_KEY) (XEMACS_INFO_XEMACS_LATE_PACKAGES_KEY) (XEMACS_INFO_XEMACS_LAST_PACKAGES_KEY): Add. -------- ChangeLog Entries from nt/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from nt/installer/Wise/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -------- ChangeLog Entries from src/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. 2006-02-22 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * syntax.c: Move static functions in syntax_cache page to top. 2006-02-19 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; Fix crash (cf. Holger Schauer <yxz7j7xzk97.fsf(a)gimli.holgi.priv>). Improve nomenclature (some identifiers were misnamed with "syntax_table" although they are purely related to syntax cache). Add lots of comments explaining logic and use of arguments. * syntax.c (setup_syntax_cache): Fix broken logic that initialized prev_change and next_change members to Qnil for syntax caches associated with buffers, triggering an assertion because the update functions expect those members to markers. * syntax.c (signal_syntax_cache_extent_changed): * syntax.c (reset_buffer_syntax_cache_range): Rename reset_buffer_cache_range to reset_buffer_syntax_cache_range. * lisp.h (signal_syntax_cache_extent_changed): * syntax.c (signal_syntax_cache_extent_changed) * syntax.c (update_syntax_cache): * extents.c (signal_single_extent_changed): Rename signal_syntax_table_extent_changed to signal_syntax_cache_extent_changed. * lisp.h (signal_syntax_cache_extent_adjust): * syntax.c (signal_syntax_cache_extent_adjust): * insdel.c (buffer_delete_range, buffer_insert_string_1): Rename signal_syntax_table_extent_adjust to signal_syntax_cache_extent_adjust. * syntax.h (update_syntax_cache): Fix typo in comment. 2006-02-16 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)xemacs.org&gt; * xgccache.c (gc_cache_lookup): Remove "Cache full" warning. 2006-01-21 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)xemacs.org&gt; * mc-alloc.c (init_mc_allocator): Cygwin claims to have a 64k page size, add it. 2006-01-20 Rick Rankin <rrankin1424-xemacs(a)yahoo.com&gt; * sysdir.h: Workaround missing d_ino field from 'struct dirent'. 2006-01-19 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)xemacs.org&gt; * dynarr.c (Dynarr_realloc): Determine size of memory region to copy correctly, fix types. * dynarr.c (Dynarr_lisp_realloc): Determine size of memory region to copy correctly. * dynarr.c (Dynarr_resize): Call Dynarr_realloc with number of elements instead of memory region size. 2006-01-19 Marcus Crestani <crestani(a)xemacs.org&gt; * objects-x.c (x_find_charset_font): Add cast to fix C++ build. 2005-11-25 Mike Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * nt.c (init_mswindows_environment): Add EMACSEARLYPACKAGES, EMACSLATEPACKAGES, EMACSLASTPACKAGES. * config.h.in: (PATH_EARLY_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES, PATH_LATE_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES) (PATH_LAST_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES): Add. * paths.h.in: (PATH_EARLY_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES, PATH_LATE_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES) (PATH_LAST_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES): Add. * emacs.c: Add Vconfigure_early_package_directories, Vconfigure_late_package_directories, Vconfigure_last_package_directories. (complex_vars_of_emacs): Set them. 2005-12-25 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * alloc.c: * alloc.c (malloc_warning): * alloc.c (MALLOC_BEGIN): * alloc.c (FREE_OR_REALLOC_BEGIN): Revert the alloc warning bugfix, in response to Stephen's mail 87acepzl6e.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp . 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * objects-x.c (x_font_instance_truename): * objects-x.c (x_find_charset_font): Reintroduce my change of 2005-12-20 and Stephen's of 2005-12-23, which my last commit overrode. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * event-Xt.c: Add two new lisp variables, x-us-keymap-description and x-us-keymap-first-keycode to better provide a fallback to the US layout with keyboards where typing the Roman alphabet and those punctuation symbols that have command bindings associated with them is difficult. * event-Xt.c (x_event_to_emacs_event): Use those two Lisp variables to improve Russian C-x processing. * event-stream.c (command_builder_find_leaf): Make a comment more readable. 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * alloc.c (MALLOC_BEGIN): Assert that we're either not in malloc, or warning about memory being low. * alloc.c (MALLOC_WARNING_BEGIN, MALLOC_WARNING_END): Add two clauses to set and clear a flag that we're in a low-memory warning situation. * alloc.c (malloc_warning): Move it after the definition of MALLOC_WARNING_BEGIN, MALLOC_WARNING_END 2005-12-24 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * objects-gtk.c (MAX_FONT_COUNT): * objects-x.c (MAX_FONT_COUNT): Increase MAX_FONT_COUNT from 5000 to INT_MAX. Applies to both the X and GTK platforms. 2005-12-23 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * objects-x.c (x_find_charset_font): More mule-ization. 2005-12-23 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * objects-x.c (x_font_instance_truename): Mule-ize handling of font name (Xft names are UTF-8). Fixes crash. 2005-12-20 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * objects-x.c (x_find_charset_font): Return Qnil on no match, not Qunbound. Fixes performance issues based on the use of this return value in objects.c:font_instantiate 2005-12-18 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * syntax.c (charset_syntax): * syntax.c (update_just_this_syntax_table): * syntax.c (complex_vars_of_syntax): To my embarrassment, my previous change didn't actually work. This change makes (char-syntax (make-char 'chinese-cns11643-1 50 50)) give ?w, the expected result after the last change. -------- ChangeLog Entries from tests/ChangeLog -------- 2006-02-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.5.25 "eggplant" is released. -- University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.