[The upload is going slowly. Allow about a half hour from the timestamp on this message for all the tarballs to get copied.] I've updated all the packages and incremented every version number. The only user-visible changes are to gnats and tm. The scripts that formerly lived in the XEmacs core are now distributed with their respective package. This is a test release and if something goes wrong, I will repackage everything under the same version number until I get it right. The package-get-base.el file is at: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index-1998-10-12-1 Build changes: There is support for `make install'. To use it, you must set STAGING to point to the package area to install to, eg. $ make STAGING=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages install There is support for multiple lisp directories (as in leim), multiple data directories (as in Gnus), and attached scripts (as in tm). I've changed the way package-get-base.el is generated. The build procedure installs the package-info information into a copy as the package is built. Hopefully this change will resolve the problems of the database getting out of date. Tip of the day: If you have checked out a previous version of the XEmacs package lisp source from CVS and wish to get a new package, the following procedure is the easiest way to do it (illustrating with the newly added bbdb package): $ cd xemacs-packages/comm $ mkdir bbdb $ cvs add bbdb $ cd bbdb $ cvs update -d Enjoy and beat me up if this still doesn't go right.