Re: default value 'w3 of mm-text-html-renderer

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon Jan 17 2005 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> Well, if you have w3 installed, Gnus will use it.  If you have w3
> >> installed, but it doesn't work, then Gnus can't really be expected to
> >> guess that.  Either remove w3 or change the value of
> >> `mm-text-html-renderer'.
> 
> > Can you use w3 with a recent version of GNU CVS emacs?
> > When I start it with M-x w3 I get the error message
> 
> >   (void-function url-register-protocol)
> 
> According to the URL ChangeLog, url-register-protocol hasn't ever been
> added/removed/changed/touched/...
> 
> Now, Google says otherwise (it says that it was mentioned at least in
> xemacs-19.16/lisp/w3/url-vars.el), but that was a long time ago.
> 
> What version of W3 are you using?

I am trying to understand what is the latest version of w3.
Well, there is the web page 

http://www.gnu.org/software/w3/

which points to version w3-4.0pre.47 that I try to use. In this
version of w3, the header of the main file w3.el says

;;; w3.el --- Main functions for emacs-w3 on all platforms/versions
;; Author: wmperry
;; Created: 1999/11/09 14:52:37
;; Version: 1.10
;; Keywords: faces, help, comm, news, mail, processes, mouse, hypermedia


But apparently there are also newer versions of w3. Recent versions
of SuSE linux (version >= 9.0) are shipped with a version of w3
where the header of w3.el says


;;; w3.el --- Main functions for emacs-w3 on all platforms/versions
;; Author: $Author: wmperry $
;; Created: $Date: 2003/01/12 22:10:25 $
;; Version: $Revision: 1.32 $
;; Keywords: faces, help, comm, news, mail, processes, mouse, hypermedia

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; Copyright (c) 1993 - 1996 by William M. Perry <address@hidden>
;;; Copyright (c) 1996, 97, 98, 99, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.


Note the rather different versions numbers.
What have I missed here?? Is this w3 really part of GNU Emacs?

Roland