Thanks for the tip Mike. I tried using the package manager to download prerelease packages, and I get this: open ftp.xemacs.org Connected to xemacs.org. 220 ProFTPD 1.2.9 Server (ProFTPD on ftp.tux.org) [gwyn.tux.org] quote user "anonymous" 500 AUTH not understood open mirrors.ibiblio.org Connected to mirrors.ibiblio.org. 220 Welcome to mirrors.ibiblio.org FTP service. quote user "anonymous" 530 Please login with USER and PASS. I'll download packages manually and try that out. But I wanted to report this failure with the integrated package manager. Is this a well-known issue? - Charles Mike Kupfer writes: _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

I'm afraid that it might be that. I don't know whether this is true in all cases but I think that the ftp-sites are not known to be very stable. I have also had problems with the ftp client side that might not work stable. And who uses ftp these days for download? I've previously announced that I'm looking into improving the package situation possibly by using another client than ftp, like curl or wget, even getting libcurl support included in the core. So we could have http based archives. However I'm afraid I've been busy with other stuff so much that I have forgotten all about this and I need to start it all over again if I will find the time for it at all. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta