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21.4 Release postponed to March 15 22 years, 3 months

Stephen J. Turnbull

Due to personal circumstances, day job, and poor personal time management, I've badly missed the deadline for the last major status report (originally scheduled for February 15) before the 21.4 release. Since I won't get it finished for a day or so yet, this entails a delay in the release. My apologies for the delay. The new release target is March 15, 2001. As far as I know, there are no development problems warranting a delay. In the last couple of days, Martin Buchholz provided two patches and Matt Tucker a third that took care of the three showstoppers I know of offhand. However, my knowledge at the moment is not as complete and accurate as it should be. (Management holding up the developers ... sound familiar?) I need to put out a status report, and get the developers' responses, with some lead time before the release. Bill Perry is still committing stuff to the separate GTK branch. Pending a status report from him on the merge and my investigation of the build reports, I still hope to propose merging that code back to the release branch. So it is important to continue building --with-gtk=no and submit build reports on all platforms (not just GTK-capable ones). -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."

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New mirrors in Austria and Czech Republic 22 years, 3 months

XEmacs Webmaster

We have added a mirror of the XEmacs website in Austria thanks to Antonin Sprinzl: <URL:http://www.at.xemacs.org/> A new FTP mirror is available in the Czech Republic thanks to Andrea Kropacova: <URL:ftp://ftp.cz.xemacs.org/MIRRORS/ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/> As always, the most up-to-date list of XEmacs mirror sites can be found at: <URL:http://www.xemacs.org/Download/> Enjoy.

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Updated Packages Released - Feb, 17 22 years, 3 months

Steve Youngs

I've just released the following updated packages: psgml - Updated to version 1.22 ediff - * ediff-diff.el (ediff-make-diff2-buffer): Removed bogus checks for remote files. (ediff-coding-system-for-read): replaced the no-conversion default with raw-text. * ediff-init.el: Removed :version from defcustom vars. * ediff-util.el (ediff-compute-custom-diffs-maybe): Better handling of the diff mode * ediff.texi: Added ediff-coding-system-for-read. viper - * viper.texi: typos * viper-ex (ex-unix-type-shell-options): Fixed :type. * viper-init: Fixed typos in comments. vc - Sync up with GNU Emacs 20.7 Installing them: =============== Options -> Manage Packages -> Add Download Site Options -> Manage Packages -> List and Install select the packages you wish to install (instructions at bottom of *PACKAGES* buffer) Packages -> Install/Remove Selected Restart XEmacs. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------<youngs(a)xemacs.org>---|

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ftp aux directory updated with latest links and tarballs 22 years, 3 months

Martin Buchholz

I've updated tarballs of openldap, Berkeley db, nas, libpng, bzip2, im, mew, and added a tarball for ncurses to ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux (the latest level of software). Here is the updated contents of the README at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux: This directory contains programs that are not included in the XEmacs distribution, but which are either used by various packages that are in the distribution or are enhancements which can be compiled into XEmacs. Where available, ftp sites, web home pages, and configure flags (although you should never have to specify library configure flags since they are autodetected) are indicated below. Most of the files listed below contain the sources to these programs, and you will have to build them yourself. However, some binaries are available for the Win32 (i.e. native Windows 9x/NT), Cygwin and MinGW platforms. This file last updated 2001-02-14. Windows Binaries: ----------------- The win32/ directory contains binaries for patch, ssh, cvs, and common graphics libraries needed for building XEmacs. Note that most of these are self-extracting executables. Cygwin Binaries: ---------------- The cygwin/ directory contains critical tools (most of the standard Unix utilities missing from the standard Cygwin distribution), as well as binaries of the X11 libraries. For more information, see http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/ MinGW Binaries: --------------- The mingw/ directory contains binaries for the graphics libraries (Xpm, png+zlib, jpeg, tiff, compface -- remember that gif support is built in) needed for building XEmacs using the MinGW compiler. (MinGW is a version of GCC that uses native Microsoft DLL's instead of requiring a POSIX-emulation DLL, as Cygwin does.) For more information on MinGW, see http://www.mingw.org/ Databases: ---------- These DBM implementations are supported by XEmacs: native dbm (provided by OS), GDBM, and Berkeley DB version 1, 2 and 3. GDBM is the GNU DBM library, compatible with the Unix dbm library. gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gdbm/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/gdbm.html configure flag: --with-database=gnudbm Berkeley DB is provided by Sleepycat Software. db-2.7.7.tar.gz db-3.2.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.sleepycat.com/pub http://www.sleepycat.com/ configure flag: --with-database=berkdb OpenLDAP is an implementation of the LDAP X.500 Directory protocol. openldap-2.0.7.tgz ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-release http://www.openldap.org/ configure flag: --with-ldap Image Format Libraries: ----------------------- `compface' is an old library for viewing X-Faces in messages. It is no longer being maintained, but still works. compface.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/compface/ configure flag: --with-xface The JPEG image format library jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/ http://www.ijg.org/ configure flag: --with-jpeg The TIFF image format library tiff-v3.4-tar.gz ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/ configure flag: --with-tiff The XPM image format library xpm-3.4k.tar.gz ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm/ http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html configure flag: --with-xpm The PNG image format library libpng-1.0.9.tar.gz ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src/ http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ configure flag: --with-png The ZLIB compression library is used by the PNG library. zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ Other Multimedia: ----------------- Network Audio System (NAS) is a client-server sound library for X. nas-1.4.1.src.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/audio/nas/ http://radscan.com/nas.html configure flag: --with-nas Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD) is yet another sound system. esound-0.2.8.tar.gz http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html Netpbm is a collection of programs that XEmacs might use at runtime. netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ Xaw3d is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the Athena widget library that `looks cooler'. Xaw3-1.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/ Internationalization: --------------------- Canna is a Japanese language input method. Canna has not been updated since 1996. Canna32p2.tar.gz Canna35b2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.nec.co.jp/pub/Canna/ configure flag: --with-canna Wnn is a multi-language mule input method. Wnn4 is the free version, while Wnn6 is the commercial version. Wnn4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.wg.omron.co.jp/pub/Wnn/ (free wnn - appears to be dead) ftp://ftp.omronsoft.co.jp/pub/Wnn6/ (commercial version) configure flag: --with-wnn Mew is a multi-lingual mailreader. mew-1.94.2.tar.gz im-140.tar.gz (used by mew) http://www.mew.org/ ftp://ftp.Mew.org/pub/Mew/ kterm is a multi-lingual terminal emulator with special support for Asian languages with large character sets. ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/ ispell is a spelling checker with support for multiple languages. ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/ispell http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/geoff/ispell.html http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html Miscellaneous: -------------- ncurses looks like (in 2001) it is becoming the standard free software curses library. http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.html ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ Developer Tools: ---------------- bzip2 is a compressor that compresses much better than gzip. bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/bzip2/ texi2html is a script that converts Texinfo pages to HTML. This release is version 1.58 texi2html.tar.gz The texi2html package is undergoing a change of ownership during 1999. Current home page: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html/ Former home page: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html/ Gnats is a bug tracking system. gnats-3.113.tar.gz cern_wwwgnats_v2.0-beta.tar.gz (WWW front end to Gnats) http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gnats/ Use autoconf to generate `configure' from `configure.in'. autoconf-2.13.tar.gz http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/ ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/autoconf/ Use the `applypatch' program from the makepatch package to apply patches to upgrade from one beta release to another. Use this if you have a slow or expensive connection to the Net. makepatch-2.00_03.tar.gz ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/JV http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/

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Updated Packages Released - Feb 13, 2001. 22 years, 3 months

Steve Youngs

I've just released updated versions of the following packages: gnus-1.54-pkg.tar.gz - Updated to author version 5.8.8 vm-1.28-pkg.tar.gz - Updated to author version 6.90 Install them by: =============== Options -> Manage Packages -> Add Download Site Options -> Manage Packages -> List and Install select gnus and/or vm Packages -> Install/Remove Selected Once the packages have been installed, restart XEmacs. Note to 21.2 users: Use "Tools -> Packages" instead of "Options -> Manage Packages". -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------<youngs(a)xemacs.org>---|

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New FTP Mirrors in New Zealand & Russia 22 years, 3 months

XEmacs Webmaster

Two new XEmacs download locations have been added to our list of distribution sites. In New Zealand: <URL:ftp://ftp.nz.xemacs.org/mirror/ftp.xemacs.org/> (FTP) In Russia: <URL:ftp://ftp.ru.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/> (FTP) <URL:http://ftp.ru.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/> (HTTP) As always, the most up-to-date list of XEmacs mirror sites can be found at: <URL:http://www.xemacs.org/Download/> Enjoy.

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Updated setup.ini for Windows net installer 22 years, 3 months

Andy Piper

I have updated setup.ini to reflect the latest released XEmacs packages. Mirror sites should be updated soon. This will fix problems people were having with packages not being found. A few people are having problems with the installer hanging during downloads. I do not know why this is - and the code is identical to the cygwin installer code, so something fishy is going on. I now have no time left to debug any of this for a few weeks. Thanks andy

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XEmacs 21.1.13 for Windows and Cygwin 22 years, 3 months

Andy Piper

The XEmacs team are proud to announce the availability of a self installing binary kit of XEmacs 21.1.13 for Microsoft Windows, native and Cygwin 1.1.x The kit is located at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe and all the usual mirrors. This release is different to other releases in that it is supplied through a `net' installer which will download and install the components you select over the internet. The installer is based on the cygwin installer. The release supports binaries for both native Windows (95, 98, NT & W2K) and for Cygwin 1.1.6 or greater as well as all the relevant XEmacs packages. The XEmacs Team

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Re: XEmacs 21.1.13 for Windows and Cygwin 22 years, 3 months

Michael Kelley

I ran into the same stumbling block. I didn't have to wait very long for the download to fail. I sure would like to have emacs in both environments. Thanks for your work in that area Henry S. Thompson" wrote: > Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes: > > > The XEmacs team are proud to announce the availability of a self installing > > binary kit of XEmacs 21.1.13 for Microsoft Windows, native and Cygwin 1.1.x > > > > > > The kit is located at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe and > > all the usual mirrors. > > > > > > This release is different to other releases in that it is supplied through a > > `net' installer which will download and install the components you select over > > the internet. The installer is based on the cygwin installer. The release > > supports binaries for both native Windows (95, 98, NT & W2K) and for Cygwin > > 1.1.6 or greater as well as all the relevant XEmacs packages. > > Great idea, didn't work for me :-( > > Downloaded setup.exe (1.1.2.14) from mirror.ac.uk, took 'install from > internet', 'direct connection' choices, got as far as the > > 'Downloading Packages > > mirrors.lst > > Connecting' > > step and nothing happened. Cancelled after several minutes, same > thing. Any way I can help with more information? Running Win2K, > Cygwin1.1.8, no problems with Cygwin setup in the past, and I checked > just now and it got past the mirrors.lst step without problems. > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh > W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team > 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Michael Kelley mkelley(a)nmsu.edu Programmer/Systems Analyst I

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Re: XEmacs 21.1.13 for Windows and Cygwin 22 years, 3 months

Henry S. Thompson

Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes: > The XEmacs team are proud to announce the availability of a self installing > binary kit of XEmacs 21.1.13 for Microsoft Windows, native and Cygwin 1.1.x > > > The kit is located at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe and > all the usual mirrors. > > > This release is different to other releases in that it is supplied through a > `net' installer which will download and install the components you select over > the internet. The installer is based on the cygwin installer. The release > supports binaries for both native Windows (95, 98, NT & W2K) and for Cygwin > 1.1.6 or greater as well as all the relevant XEmacs packages. Great idea, didn't work for me :-( Downloaded setup.exe (1.1.2.14) from mirror.ac.uk, took 'install from internet', 'direct connection' choices, got as far as the 'Downloading Packages mirrors.lst Connecting' step and nothing happened. Cancelled after several minutes, same thing. Any way I can help with more information? Running Win2K, Cygwin1.1.8, no problems with Cygwin setup in the past, and I checked just now and it got past the mirrors.lst step without problems. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/

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