[Adding gnuclient_setup, removing Netinstall and InstallShield from website]

[Vin Shelton]

Dear Adrian,

On 10/13/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:

> > Then my extensive customizations get loaded and the font-locking
> > changes.
> >
> > And the way the scratch buffer gets initialized seems to be different
> > in some respect.
>
> I guess initial-scratch-message must be initialized too late or not
> get inserted for some reason.

Actually, there's a race condition that I have been unable to track
down.  When gnuclient starts a fresh XEmacs, it currently waits 3
seconds before sending XEmacs a message because XEmacs can get
confused if the gnuclient command arrives too early on stdin from
gnuserv.  I think your setup requires a longer wait.

If I knew what the actual race condition is, I would track it down and
squish it.  Setting a wait timeout was the easier (if less robust)
path to take.  I could:
a) do nothing
b) increase the timeout
c) make the timeout configurable via a command line parameter
d) find the real bug.  I haven't had much luck with this approach.

Let me know what you think.  In any case I'll release a new setup kit
replacing the reference to the testing directory - please let me know
your preference around the race condition mentioned above.

Regards,
  Vin

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