XEmacs release plans [was: regexps]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Yes. It's not clear to me when; I'm not happy with several of the features currently in development (most particularly the lack of proper customization support for fontconfig and Xft; and the stalled update of the GTK+ port to GTK+ v2 (!!)). But if the consensus of the developers is to release and be damned, I'll go along (and I'm pretty sure we'll be damned but that's life in the big city for you ;-). "Stuff", yes. comint-related "stuff", gdb/gud.el, and jit-lock are highest priority, IMO (nb, that's a +1, not a BDFL pronouncement -- XEmacs doesn't have a BDFL). url.el, probably pretty low priority, as I suppose we'll probably settle on curl (I have a native binding for *nix, and SXEmacs has kindly provided a port of their FFI implementation which includes an FFI-based binding) and/or neon (I have a native binding for *nix) for web services for the near future. If a port of url.el would make your life easier, specifically for developing Gnus, I'm not sure how many of the heavy Gnus users remain in XEmacs proper. Steve Youngs (of course), and I believe Nelson and maybe Norbert Koch, are Gnusers over on the SXEmacs side. Since we share packages still, and url.el is in a package (w3, but if needed it could be split out easily enough), you might lobby those guys to better effect. Of course you can lobby us, too, but I don't know how much interest there will be with all the other things we need/want to do. Then again, maybe Steve B. will come back, he keeps making noises.... _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta