XEmacs 21.5 beta and FC 9 preview

[Mike FABIAN]

Hans de Graaff <graaff at gentoo.org> さんは書きました:

> 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.

Yes, that’s why I switched to 21.5.x in the SuSE packages.  The bad
UTF-8 support in 21.4.x is a showstopper nowadays.  Although 21.5.x is
beta, it nevertheless works much better in most respects compared to
21.4.x. At least in my experience. 

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