Re: XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service" is released.

Andy> At 12:20 PM 10/25/01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Andy> C'mon Steve. I supplied a working patch and then you broke Andy> it in the real release without *anyone* doing any testing on Andy> the changed version. Seems like a recipe for disaster to me Andy> - and I don't really understand why you did it in the first Andy> place, who really cares about C++ compilation? So? You still knew a lot more than I did and could have saved me a fair amount of time with a more precise description. There are 550 lines of ChangeLog, I don't remember all the patches in detail. Instead, I had to wallow through the code to figure out what was going on. Please? "Why?" Well, IMO there's no excuse for an _enhancement_ that introduces warnings in a stable branch. I should have just let it wait for 21.4.6, but you were in a hurry to get it in. As for the "disaster," yes, I've screwed up. I wanted a Windows code freeze, I didn't get it, I tried to manage the code base anyway. I've made too many mistakes. Fortunately, most resulted in build problems, so people wasted some time (my apologies) but hopefully no data. So now we're going to fix that. I just wanted to get this release out, the branch created, and "Tag, you're it." Not an edifying motivation, but the beneficial effect on the Windows port should be obvious very shortly. Why postpone that? That's the way I felt about it, unfortunately for 21.4.5. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.