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SL Baur

Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > *Hate* > Our network sucks. > Since I can't cvs diff at a reasonable speed and cvs update'ing in my > trees take ages, I'd like to be able to mirror (readonly of course) > the xemacs cvs repository. Is there cvsupd or something like that > around there? It requires Modula III which I've tried and failed to get running. It may work a bit better on systems other than Linux. So long as you're not checking things in, running rsync ought to be the easiest solution. > Actually, it would be fun to automagically trigger the mirror on > Steve's "Subject: .*XEmacs.*released.*" mails to xemacs-announce :-) That would be a good idea.

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Re: 21.0 showstopper bytecompile-time -vs- run-time dependencies 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Greg Klanderman <greg(a)alphatech.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Oscar(attribution not cited) wrote: >>> of them depends on some other package. I can't see how a tool >>> could determine automatically which requirements are really >>> necessary and which just enhance functionality without my writing >>> it explicitely. > Actually I'd guess it is undecidable, which I assume is what Oscar meant. Right. It will have to be done manually, the bytecompile dependencies were computed manually, but presumably this would be easier if you had something to run that output a full list of dependent packages first.

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Re: [rms@gnu.org: Re: 20.3.1 nit: set-face-* commands] 25 years, 8 months

Hrvoje Niksic

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes: > Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: > > > their own obarray and everything. Elisp keywords are just symbols > > beginning with `:'. So why shouldn't an optional argument receive a > > symbol beginning with `:'? > > Ok you guys have a point there :-). So what could we do instead? I can't think of a correct solution to this. > Implement packages so one can call > > (xemacs::read-from-minibuffer). > > ?? Why would you want to do that? Packages are used for clean namespace separation, e.g. so that Gnus functions don't need to start with `gnus-'. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The end of the world is coming... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!

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Re: XEmacs 21.2-beta3 & XEmacs 21.0-pre15-pre6 is released 25 years, 8 months

Greg Klanderman

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: sb> >> Steve, which name do you wish to use? sb> sb> Let's go with package-index.LATEST.pgp. OK, after work I'll try to get out a patch to fix this, the custom stuff, and add a function to write out a package-index file. greg

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Re: Forgotten Package issue 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > 5. mailcrypt and mailcryptng shadow each other. > What is the deal here? Should the "mailcryptng" have a "distribution > unstable" line so it won't be picked up in Sumo's? Yes.

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Re: XEmacs sumo 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: >> ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-SUMO-1998-09-19.tar.gz >> > Lars I think you might prefer the more modern > xemacs-sumo-19981014.tar.gz > xemacs-sumo-19981014.README > in the same directory. Uh oh. Right. More naming confusion. Is it going to be `SUMO' or `sumo'?

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Re: XEmacs 21.2-beta3 & XEmacs 21.0-pre15-pre6 is released 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Greg Klanderman <greg(a)alphatech.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: >>>>>> "mb" == Mark Borges <mdb(a)cdc.noaa.gov> writes: mb> mb> Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST' does not exist I've made this symlink for the time being. > M-x set-variable RET package-get-base-filename > /ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp RET > and try again. > Steve, which name do you wish to use? Let's go with package-index.LATEST.pgp.

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Re: Remaining package issues in latest (pre8) XEmacs 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... > 3. text-mode 1.13 is broken. The '(defvar flyspel-mode-map)' in > fly-spell.el should get an autoload. BTW Big Kudoo's to whoever > implemented that errors in init files now are reported as warnings. > (Yes I know that is not new). I saw that in testing. I got three copies of an updated flyspell.el plus patches and I had no idea which one was supposed to go in so I picked one.

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Re: Link error in 21.2-b2/NT 25 years, 8 months

Greg Klanderman

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Tilkov <stilcom(a)gmx.net> writes: Stefan> Stefan> Please forgive me if this has already been answered - I joined the list Stefan> today and have found no solution to my problem in the archive. It hasn't - most of us are still working in the 21.0 tree, not 21.2. Stefan> I can't build 21.2-b2 under NT, I could build 21.2-b1 with no problems. ... Stefan> dired.c Stefan> ..\src\dired.c(603) : warning C4013: 'endpwent' undefined; assuming Stefan> extern return Apparently NT does not have these functions used by my username completion patch. Those functions can be ifdeffed out under windows, or maybe there are equivalents. I'm not an NT user.

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Re: XEmacs 21.2-beta3 & XEmacs 21.0-pre15-pre6 is released 25 years, 8 months

Greg Klanderman

>>>>> "mb" == Mark Borges <mdb(a)cdc.noaa.gov> writes: mb> mb> Package-get database file `/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST' does not exist M-x set-variable RET package-get-base-filename /ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp RET and try again. Steve, which name do you wish to use?

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