Some belated announcements for XEmacs releases.

The following recent announcements for xemacs-21.2.6, xemacs-21.2.7, and xemacs-21.2.8 should have gone to xemacs-announce, but didn't quite make it. Here they are, again. From: Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; Sender: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org, xemacs-nt(a)xemacs.org, xemacs-announce(a)xemacs.org Subject: XEmacs 21.2.6 "Apollo" is released Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:30:09 +0000 This is nothing specical in that there are no new changes to CVS I am simply tagging, updating changelogs and fixing the version so that people can get back at a stable version before we start another patch-fest. I am unable to upload tarballs. to 21.2 beta6 "Apollo" -- mswindows compile fixes from Martin Buchholz, Andy Piper, Greg Klanderman and Adrian Aichner -- Synch with XEmacs 21.0.60 -- mega-patch fixes from Martin Buchholz -- md5 fixes and testsuite from Hrvoje Niksic -- database fix from Hrvoje Niksic andy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- " .sigs are like your face - rarely seen by you and uglier than you think" Dr Andy Piper, Technical Architect, Parallax Solutions Ltd mail: andyp(a)parallax.co.uk web: www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp From: Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; Sender: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org To: XEmacs Beta Test <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Subject: XEmacs 21.2.7 is released Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 14:33:22 -0800 (PST) Ho Ho Ho! This is my first beta release. Have mercy. Have fun finding all the different ways I've messed up. XEmacs 21.2.6 was a CVS-only release. No one ever got around to making tarballs. It doesn't seem worth making tarballs now. Diffs are, however, available to allow folks to patch up. All of my own patches are finally released. XEmacs should be fairly stable on Unix, if not yet on Windows. Andy's subwindow support is in. So all the large patches have been applied, and XEmacs is still alive. There certainly are some patches that have not yet been applied, but should be. Several regular XEmacs contributors, such as myself, have recently converted to doing direct CVS commits. I encourage others, Hrvoje in particular, to do the same. As a complete coincidence, the Latin name for Ares is Mars, so this is not just a Martin release, but also a Martian one. to 21.2 beta7 "Ares" -- mswindows modeline crash fix from Jonathan Harris -- picon glyph fix from Gunnar Evermann -- widgets-in-buffers and subwindow support from Andy Piper -- movemail pop support under mswindows from Fabrice Popineau -- ldap fixes from Oscar Figueiredo -- fns cleanup from Hrvoje Niksic -- menubar fixes from Didier Verna -- mswindows accelerator fix from Jonathan Harris -- dired mule fix from Didier Verna -- sound doc cleanup from Charles Waldman -- new display table functionality from Hrvoje Niksic -- minor cleanups -- package fixes from Jan Vroonhof -- subwindow support fixes from Martin Buchholz Martin From: Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; Sender: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org To: XEmacs Beta Test <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; Cc: XEmacs Mule <xemacs-mule(a)xemacs.org&gt; Subject: XEmacs 21.2.8 "Artemis" is released Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:12:39 -0800 (PST) This is another experimental beta release, mostly spent fighting with CVS problems. I have only applied my own patches to this beta, and am still hoping that someone else, perhaps Andy, will deal with the problem of managing everyone else's patches. In particular, Andy, please apply all the Windows-relevant patches. Having already invested some effort in script writing to put out two betas, I will probably volunteer to keep maintaining my personal scripts that actually put out releases. To the Mule folks (and that includes everyone who uses the Mule version, not just the ones with large character sets), there are some important bug fixes in this release. Some Mule bugs were introduced during the great Windows hacking frenzy. to 21.2 beta8 "Artemis" -- A bunch of Mule fixes from Martin Buchholz Martin From: Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; To: XEmacs Announcements <xemacs-announce(a)xemacs.org&gt; Cc: python-mode(a)python.org, bug-cc-mode(a)gnu.org Subject: Sync with Barry Warsaw packages, + cc-mode fix X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 21.2 "Ares" XEmacs Lucid (beta7) Reply-To: martin(a)xemacs.org Happy New Year! Schöne Grüße zum Neujahr! The following have been imported from Barry Warwaw's elisp site http://www.python.org/emacs/ and converted/added to XEmacs 21-style packages.=20 cc-mode win-ring python-mode xrdb-mode The CVS tree at :pserver:xemacs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/usr/CVSroot has been updated with the latest changes, and binary packages are available at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages Oh, I almost forgot: this also includes a fix for tar-mode.el in os-utils, so that editing .tar.gz files in XEmacs 21.2 should work again. Here are the new binary kits: -rw-r--r-- 1 6112 6199 212482 Dec 31 00:44 cc-mode-1.14-pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 6112 6199 574688 Dec 31 00:45 edit-utils-1.35-pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 6112 6199 227190 Dec 31 00:46 os-utils-1.13-pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 6112 6199 594358 Dec 31 00:48 prog-modes-1.16-pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 6112 6199 195316 Dec 31 00:49 text-modes-1.16-pkg.tar.gz This is the first time I've released new-style XEmacs packages, so it's likely I've done something wrong. Enjoy. Martin