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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Quick reference for recent XEmacs releases
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
>>>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> Won't this make us irrevocably bytecode incompatible with Emacs
sb> 20/Mule?

>> We already are.  Files with Mule characters, encoded using
>> escape-quoted, are unlikely to be readable by not-XEmacs 20.

>> The escape-quoted coding system is a Ben invention.

sb> And recent Ben stuff is held in limbo by Sun's refusal to sign
sb> copyright assignment papers. :-(

No more limboed than my changes.

sb> This sucks and doesn't guard XEmacs/Mule against Emacs/Mule
sb> bytecompiled .elcs.

Actually, my solution won't work for Latin1 XEmacs either, because it
will likely die on read, before it ever tries to do an eval.  We could
fix this for XEmacs by magic cookie-ing (at considerable expense), but
GNU Emacs sources are not under our control.

Martin

