Re: Enhanced Carbon Emacs (version 2.1, emacs 21.3.50.4) :

[Guillaume Lessard]

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 woefully out of date.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?

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Guillaume Lessard
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