Need some bug/version info

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:

> rigid, anyway, so I'd like to remove the workaround.  This requires
>
> a) making sure that indeed the current code base of XEmacs will load
> image files without conversions (character set _and_ line endings) on
> both MULE and non-MULE XEmacsen.
>
> b) it would be _very_ nice to know just _what_ version of XEmacs
> started doing this correctly so that we can mention it in the
> installation prerequisites and dependencies.
>
> If anybody can get a hold on this information, I'd be pretty glad.
> The workaround appeared in preview-latex with the following ChangeLog
> entry, so I expect that at a similar time an XEmacs fix, _if_ there
> has been a fix, would have been concocted.
>
> revision 1.38
> date: 2002/04/16 23:35:28;  author: nixsf;  state: Exp;  lines: +19 -5
> (preview-create-icon): Cater for file-handlers (as in dired) forcing
> coding-system autodetection at glyph-instantiation time if the glyph must
> be read from a file; read it by hand.
>
> Thanks for any input you can give me on that.  For one thing, I'd like
> the version info to be correct, and for another, of course I want to
> know if this bug _really_ is gone.

Ok, so it would appear that the next release announcement should
essentially have to contain something like:

    Since at the current point of time no XEmacs developer can be
    interested enough in preview-latex to even answer questions, the
    versions of XEmacs for which preview-latex might work can't be
    determined.  We currently try to keep the XEmacs port working to
    the best of our knowledge; however, if your work depends on
    preview-latex, you should consider switching to Emacs where we
    have responsive users, testers, and developers.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum