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Re: Enhanced Carbon Emacs (version 2.1, emacs 21.3.50.4) :
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Guillaume Lessard |
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Re: Enhanced Carbon Emacs (version 2.1, emacs 21.3.50.4) : |
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Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:14:19 -0800 |
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 02:32 AM, Steven Tamm wrote:
<excerpt>The binary distributions of GNU Emacs on versiontracker are
woefully out of date. I had an email conversation with the guy who
posted the "Enhanced Version" and we sort of agreed to disagree. In
any case, the version you have is almost 3 months old and many, many
bugs have been fixed. =20
[snip]
The bigger question is what to do about the binary distributions of
21.3 that are floating around with bugs that people report.
How about making them obsolete?
Here's the real problem: there's a major unix platform out there that is
not supported by any "released" version of Emacs. Its name is "Mac OS X".
The only reason I considered (and did) get on emacs's CVS repository is
that it was at the time the only way to actually *get* a functional
(windowed) emacs on OS X.
At this point, it works pretty well. The problems I encounter in external
packages seem to be related to changes in the lisp code between 21.3 and
21.4; fixing that most likely requires a release. (Example: JDEE became
broken on Carbon Emacs during the past 3 months; it worked fine before).
How long until 21.4 is released?
--
Guillaume Lessard
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Graduate Student
Caltech Applied Physics/Electrical Engineering
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