XEmacs 21.5 beta and FC 9 preview

Hans de Graaff graaff at gentoo.org
Wed Apr 23 01:19:06 EDT 2008


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:05:08 -0700, SL Baur wrote:

> I've had the "opportunity" to install the Fedora Core 9 preview.  After
> a long post-installation hunt managed to track down where they had
> hidden XEmacs and discovered that they're installing 21.5 beta.
> 
> I suppose we should be grateful they're still including us at all, given
> their track record, but are we O.K. with a 21.5 beta being part of
> Fedora Core 9?

I'm actually contemplating the same thing for Gentoo. Currently we still 
only provide XEmacs 21.4.21, but with UTF-8 becoming more and more the 
standard for text files it seems that 21.5 would be a better option for 
many people despite being beta.

Kind regards,

Hans





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