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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: XEmacs 20.3-b2 is released
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> Get it from:
sb> 	ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/beta/xemacs-20.3/

sb> The patches are in xemacs-20.3-b1-20.3-b2.patch.gz.

sb> The full distribution is in 3 files (4 files if you are running Solaris).
sb> 	xemacs-20.3-b2.tar.gz		[main source code]
sb> 	xemacs-20.3-b2-info.tar.gz	[info tree]
sb> 	xemacs-20.3-b2-elc.tar.gz	[bytecompiled .elcs]
sb> You will need
sb> 	dynodump-1.8.tar.gz
sb> if you are running Solaris 2.  Untar it at the top level of the source 
sb> tree.  I am undecided about whether to unbundle portions of the source 
sb> in this fashion, so this is not necessarily a permanent situation.

Steve, we've talked about this, but let me repeat: I strongly protest
breaking a popular platform to save 70k (less when compressed).
Dynodump is logically part of unexsol2.c, so it should only be deleted
if you're willing to delete all the other src/unex*.c files.  It's
true that dynodump is obsolete, but only in the sense that MVS is
obsolete.  You can expect dynodump to be part of XEmacs configuration
for the next 10 years.  One directory I *am* willing to delete is
dynodump/ppc.  If you want to start with deleting platform-specific
files, how about some that don't work at all, like src/s/vms*.h ?

sb> (Hopefully) most of the configuration problems should be fixed.  The
sb> configure default has been changed to extra-verbose.  I expect this to 
sb> return to normal when configure settles down in the next few betas.
sb> There were a number of patches I had on the list to apply that I
sb> missed getting time to apply.  They will be in beta3.

I'm probably biased, but I think --extra-verbose should be the default 
for all beta builds.  What do the beta testers think?

sb> Note that this beta has received nearly no testing by me (Martin and I
sb> wanted something out before I leave town tomorrow afternoon).  Good
sb> luck.

Martin

