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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 12 Dec 1996 11:22:42 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 08 Dec 1996 20:20:30 -0800
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Steven L. Baur (steve@miranova.com) wrote:
> The proposal has been made to dump XEmacs 19.15 entirely and go
> straight to v20, with --with-mule=no as the default for the first
> binary releases.  I'd like to get some feedback before committing in
> any direction.

I agree -- go for it.  If 20.0 is stable (at least without MULE), and
it should be, I don't see a reason for not using it.  I can understand
completely your (and anyone's) lack of enthusiasm for dealing with two
source trees.

> The Cons:
> * Much of the code in v20 is younger than code in v19.  In a program
>   the size of XEmacs, that means there are plenty of bugs we haven't
>   found yet.

Maybe we could form a beta release before?  (I mean a beta release
available to more people, like zsh beta releases)

> * I've used 19.15-b3 heavily every day for the last 3 months, and have
>   a `warm, fuzzy' feeling about it.  For my usage (Gnus for email &
>   news, html/perl CGI editing) it is extremely stable.

Have you tried opening more than one device?  I get crashes on that,
but I don't use it much either.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Hocemo 101-icu!
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