[Adding gnuclient_setup, removing Netinstall and InstallShield from website]

[Adrian Aichner]

"Vin Shelton" <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

> 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.

Hi Vin, I'm happy to settle for (a) for now.

I'll see if I can help shed some light on (d) as time goes by.

But tomorrow I'll climb a mountain instead!

Have a good weekend!

Adrian

>
> Regards,
>   Vin

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