Re: Upcoming 23.1 release

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Chong Yidong<address@hidden> wrote:
> As mentioned earlier, the 23.1 release is currently scheduled for this
> Wednesday.
>
> There are a couple of problems which probably can't be fixed without
> destabilizing the branch and significantly delaying the release.  These
> are (i) the rmail auto-save issue, (ii) a bug in vertical-motion
> involving continued a particular combination of tab characters
> (Bug#3879), and (iii) the remaining issues with the Cocoa port.  I think
> it's OK to leave these for 23.2.  If anyone has objections to these or
> other issues, now is the time to raise them.


There are some serious problems with frame creation on w32. It can
crash Emacs and things can become unusable.

However most of the times it works, but it might be worth
noting/mention somewhere.

* Some notes about it:
The problems are sometimes very subtle and sometimes it is big
problems. I just saw for example that w32-shell-execture stopped
working so I had to restart Emacs. I probably see these problems
because I am using winsav to restore frames. (To get things working I
closed some frames and restarted Emacs with just one frame opening at
startup.)

I have just been able to reproduce this in a reliable way for one
specific case (for which I filed a bug report), but it happens in
other cases too. Since it often seems to happen with several frames
created at once I wonder if some data structures happen to be shared
without protection then. Just an idea - I do not know the code for
frame creation.