Charles> Mr. Preprocessor has an ambitious proposal to overhaul XEmacs' GC Charles> mechanism but seems to have lost interest in the pedestrian, boring Charles> task of maintaining dired. Dired-related patches seem to disappear Charles> into the Black Hole of Tuebingen. They certainly don't disappear. (From a release standpoint, all patches to XEmacs 21.2 have also disappeared down a black hole. What's your point?) We don't have a beta process for packages, and this makes me very reluctant to release code I don't have strong confidence in. Charles> This certainly de-motivates people Charles> from attempting to make fixes to this code. Michael, if you no longer Charles> have time or volition to maintain this package, how about handing it Charles> off to someone else? I'm more than willing to let other people contribute. Nobody has stepped forward. But please, folks, get it into your head that the issues with Dired and EFS are somewhat harder than with most other packages. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla