Package Maintainers Heads Up

[Norbert Koch]

* "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org>:

> skip at pobox.com writes:
>
>  > On November 7 I wrote:
>  > 
>  >     Ville> 1) The new vc hasn't been around for too long yet, so I'm pretty
>  >     Ville> sure we'll find more things as it gets more exposure.
>  > 
>  >     me> I still can't cleanly "just use it".  I go through this series of
>  >     me> steps after XEmacs starts:
>  > 
>  >     me>     * Try ediff-revision (the most common thing I do)
>  >     me>     * Get an error about this 'state' variable being undefined
>  >     me>     * (setq debug-on-error t)
>  >     me>     * Try again
>  >     me>     * find-function whatever-it-is
>  >     me>     * C-x C-e
>  > 
>  >     me> Then I'm off to the races.  I've cvs up'd and reinstalled the
>  >     me> packages a couple times but I still get this error.
>  > 
>  > I saw no responses to my message.  Is this problem not considered a bug
>  > *somewhere* in XEmacs or one of its packages?
>
> It's a bug.
>
> As to why it didn't get a response, I suppose that's because it looks
> like it's "Ville's thread", and most developers probably assume he'll
> take care of it.  But he's announced that he's busy, so it may take a
> bit.
>
> Ville, are you going to take a shot at this, or do you want somebody
> else to look at it?

If ediff is involved, Michael Kifer should possibly have a look at it.

norbert.