"Steve Youngs [XEmacs Beta Release Manager]" <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; wrote: I have a few. (1) I have one more fix to the C++ build, in sysdll.c. A small patch was submitted to fix it, but I decided to do it right and make sysdll.c non-ASCII-correct. If I don't manage to get that done over the weekend, I will commit the small fix and save the other for the next release. (2) I am working on a substantial update to emodules.texi. The hardest part has been documenting the module interface. That portion is now about as big as the rest of the document put together. It is fairly self-contained, though, so again, if I don't get the whole thing done this weekend, I will commit everything but the module interface and save that for the next release. (3) I have an incompletely implemented fix for the alias analysis problem with xfree. This is not hard to finish, just tedious. I should be able to get it done by Monday. There are a few other things, but they won't happen by next week, and they aren't important enough to wait for. I was pretty active last week while I was away at a conference, without the distractions of my day job. :-) I'm a little less active this week while I catch up on all the stuff that piled up while I was gone. Incidentally, Richard Gabriel [1] was invited to this particular conference [2], and I got to chat with him for a bit about XEmacs. He still uses it on his own machine, which I thought was cool. The week before that, I bumped into Eric Eide [3] at a workshop, and got to tell him the story of how I traded places with his evil twin [4]. Footnotes: [1] http://www.dreamsongs.com/ [2] http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2003/ [3] http://www.cs.utah.edu/~eeide/emacs/ [4] What, you want the story too? Well, it turns out that there is another Eric Eide in Utah [5] who, like me, got his B.S. and M.S. at BYU, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. When I arrived at UCSB and moved into my apartment, the next door neighbors thought it was funny that I was arriving from BYU, because the previous occupant of the apartment [5] had just left to take a faculty position there. [5] http://fhss.byu.edu/econ/ Since he is on the BYU faculty, that makes him evil by definition [6]. There is no known relationship between the two Erics, by the way. [6] As a BYU alumnus, I am allowed to say that. And yes, I am joking. -- Jerry James, using prepositions to end sentences with and learning to happily split infinitives