robert delius royar <xemacs(a)frinabulax.org&gt; writes: Hello Robert, ess-1.06 was part of the last official release (Nov 13), so you'll have to use one of the places that host those packages to get this package. norbert.

|--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: APA> I consider this BrokenAsDesigned True. APA> Can't we do anything to protect the user from this highly APA> surprising and misleading experiece? Use a partial index in the pre-release directory so that _only_ what's in the directory is in the index. The tricky part will be coming up with a safe way to generate the partial index (actually, that's the easy part), and a way to merge it into the main index file when those packages come out of pre-release. Mind you, this will cause more confusion for the user. Say, for example, there are 3 packages in pre-release. Said user updates her packages from one of the pre-release sites, the packages buffer from `pui-list-packages' will _only_ show those 3 packages, and will continue to show only those 3 packages until she updates from one of the main package sites (non-pre-release). Unless... Instead of replacing the user's index file we just merge in the changes. I wonder how hard that would be to implement safely? APA> * The fact that a vanilla XEmacs installation can't fetch packages APA> is probably competing for first place :-) One of these days I'll get around to finishing off the workspace I have here that "fixes" that. :-P -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | XEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------&lt;sryoungs(a)bigpond.net.au&gt;---|

|--==> "gb" == giacomo boffi <giacomo.boffi(a)polimi.it&gt; writes: gb> i liked very much the scheme used some time ago, that was gb> removed i don't know why, that is pui using a list of '(host gb> directory) "places" to search for index and packages, so that gb> if a package was not found in the 1st "place", the 2nd, 3rd gb> etc were sequentially tried I removed it because it didn't work. And also because unless all of the package index files on each of your download sites were in sync you'd run into problems. The likelihood of running into trouble was vastly increased with the introduction of "Pre-Release" packages. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---| | XEmacs - The only _______ you'll ever need. | | Fill in the blank, yes, it's THAT good! | |------------------------------&lt;sryoungs(a)bigpond.net.au&gt;---|