Re: RFC: fetch version from net

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs,comp.emacs.xemacs as well. bingalls> those who know me have no need of my name wrote: bingalls> ... bingalls> ... bingalls> Which is why I ruled them out. bingalls> ... bingalls> ... bingalls> ... bingalls> The benchmarks above beg the question, how the elisp compares with the bingalls> external processes. I'll also have to see how 'links' compares with bingalls> 'lynx' bingalls> All that's left, is to my beta testing team, to see how bingalls> this code works on various platforms, such as Classic bingalls> Mac OS. bingalls> Wow. Big thanks. (who was that masked man? ;) bingalls> I haven't heard a peep from the XEmacs newsgroup. I Hi bingalls (b for bruce?)! I don't know of a newgroup called comp.xemacs. That may explain the silence:-) Use comp.emacs.xemacs for discussions about released XEmacs versions only (currently 21.1.x) xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org or xemacs-design(a)xemacs.org would be better suited for this particular topic. Hope this helps, Adrian bingalls> thought they might have an opinion, considering that bingalls> they embed versions into their packaging system. bingalls> Your elisp code might actually work, to extract the bingalls> version from their home page. I should try it with the bingalls> Emacs savannah site, too. bingalls> The worst-case scenario, is that a wrongful splash bingalls> screen pops up. -- EMacro remakes Emacs bingalls> http://emacro.sf.net/ NY Harbor 2001-9-11 bingalls> http://www.fit-zones.com/911/ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/