XEmacs source code + packages have moved to bitbucket

[Michael Sperber]

Vin Shelton <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

> Dear Michael,
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Michael Sperber <sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>> We've been getting our source-code repo services from Alioth; its
>> service has deteriorated to the point of making a move necessary: So,
>> from now on, the "master" repositories for XEmacs and its packages will
>> reside on Bitbucket.  We're taking this opportunity to also move the
>> packages from CVS on Alioth to Mercurial on Bitbucket.
>
> Excellent!  Thank you, this is wonderful!  I have a few questions and comments.
>
> 1. Is there a 21.4 repo?  I tried:
>
> "hg clone https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/xemacs-21.4", but no joy:
>
> warning: bitbucket.org certificate with fingerprint
> 81:2b:08:90:dc:d3:71:ee:e0:7c:b4:75:ce:9b:6c:48:94:56:a1:fe not
> verified (check hostfingerprints or web.cacerts config setting)
> abort: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND

There is now.

> 2. About that cert error; it seems that adding these lines:
>
> [web]
> cacerts = /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>
> to my .hgrc is enough to satisfy hg as to the validity of the
> certificates.  Here I'm using Fedora; see
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CACertificates for more info on
> where the certificate files reside on other systems.
>
> 3. Thanks for porting the xemacs-packages to hg!!  Apart from all the
> CVS keyword changes, I noticed the following diffs:
>
>    Only in cvsroot/xemacs-packages: unsupported

I emailed around the authors of stuff in unsupported at the time, and
none of them though the stuff there was worth including in the Mercurial
repo.

>    Only in hgroot/xemacs-packages/xemacs-packages: eicq
>    Only in hgroot/xemacs-packages/xemacs-packages/gnus: gnus
>    Only in hgroot/xemacs-packages/xemacs-packages: ps-print-nomule
>    Only in hgroot/xemacs-packages/xemacs-packages/w3/lisp: custom-load.el

Huh: Has this stuff been deprecated?  Norbert?

> 4. Is there a repo of the XEmacs web sources?  I would like to capture
> this new info there.

Same here :-)

> PS. I created a bitbucket account; the account name is "acs".  Thanks
> in advance for getting me push access.  Do you need my public key?

No, you need to deposit it with bitbucket in your account.  I've added
you to the xemacs group, and made you admin for xemacs-21.4.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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