Re: New/Updated Packages in Pre-Releases - April 30
Steve Youngs writes:
|--==> "JM" == Jeff Mincy <jmincy(a)muniversal.com> writes:
JM> A have a fair amount of trouble downloading the prereleases.
Is it just the packages in 'Pre-Releases' or do you have the same
trouble with any package?
Pre-releases are only available from xemacs.org
I have trouble downloading packages in general from ftp.xemacs.org.
I'm likely to get some sort of ftp error (200 people limit?)
from xemacs.org. It appears that when an ftp error occurs the
package downloader hangs until I do ^G, then I have to answer
some y-or-n question about the *ftp* process, and then a warning
that the ftp can't be killed.
I suspect that the problem is that ms windows doesn't support kill
and efs is trying to kill the ftp.
Downloading multiple packages at once increase the odds that
this problem occurs. I was eventually able to download the pre
release packages singly.
Note that the package downloader did not work at all until
I made the following change:
(setq efs-tmp-name-template "c:/TEMP/efs") ;; was
"C:\\windows\\TEMP/efs"
efs was passing c:\windows\TEMP/efsxxxx to ftp which then complained
about c:windowsTEMP/efsxxxx not existing.
JM> I don't have a Pre-Releases in 21.1
It's in XEmacs 21.1.14
Ok. I'm on 21.1.13.
-jeff