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From: John Turner <turner@branagh.ta52.lanl.gov>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0 announcement
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Steven L. Baur writes:
 > 
 > 			Announcing XEmacs 20.0
 > 
 > XEmacs 20.0 is now available.  This is a version of GNU Emacs derived
 > from Emacs version 19 from the Free Software Foundation.
 > 
 > This is primarily a beta test release.  Many changes have occurred
 > since XEmacs 19.14, and work is continuing on XEmacs 19.15.  The
 > primary new feature is the support for MULE MUlti-Lingual extensions
 > for Emacs.  It has only been seriously tested in a Japanese locale,
 > and no doubt many problems still remain.  The support for ISO-Latin-1
 > and Japanese is fairly strong, so we're releasing it now.

I'm thinking there should be much more emphasis on the fact that 19.15
will be out very soon (right?), and that:

- it will include all the bugfixes, package updates, and new packages
  (including TM) relative to 19.14 that 20.0 does (and more if it
  includes VM 6.0x rather than 5.97)

- binaries will be available

I'm just afraid people hungry for the bugfixes and MIME capability are
going to rush to 20.0 when they might be better off waiting a bit for
19.15.

--
John A. Turner         |"Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence;
Los Alamos Natl. Lab.  |  sound is that cup, but empty;
turner@lanl.gov        |    noise is that cup, but broken."
http://www.lanl.gov/home/turner                   - Robert Fripp

