Re: Bug Report

Hrvoje> If that's fine with you, it's certainly fine with me. We Hrvoje> used to insist that the general public use and the Linux Hrvoje> distros ship stable versions, but I understand if that Hrvoje> changed to reflect the new reality. Well, I'd like to see non-developers using the stable release, but basically it's not reasonable to restrict them to that. For one thing, several leading GNU developers openly deprecate the stable release of GNU Emacs (specifically David Kastrup, but even cooler heads like Stefan Monnier admit that for their purposes stable Emacs is not really usable); in practice, anybody who wants to use advanced features of AUCTeX or any of the GDB-related modes must use CVS Emacs. But XEmacs 21.4 isn't even close to synched to stable GNU Emacs, let alone capable of emulating features of CVS GNU Emacs. And then there's the Unicode issue. And finally, we are once again in the situation we were in in Sept 2000, with an excellent but aging stable line and no schedule for a release of the devel codebase. Realistically, we have to welcome any interest from *nix distros at this stage. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba 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.