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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com>
Cc: XEmacs Beta Mailing List <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: 20.0-b30 success under Solaris 2.4 & 2.5.1
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>>>>> "Damon" == Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com> writes:

Damon> ps: Did I miss the announcement of this release?

I don't think the OFFICIAL announcement has happened (yet).
Here's a feature list (from CHANGES-beta):


to 20.0 beta30

-- Syntax entry specification "e" has been removed.
-- updated xemacs.1 man page for new argument list handling.
-- updated internals document to reflect new DEFUN macro.

-- (load-average) works on Solaris. Thanks to Hrvoje Niksic.

-- Command line processing now order independent
-- Command line like:  xemacs file -eval '(munge-file)'
   now works.
-- Now uses XmIm* functions for XIM input when available
-- Major cleanup of configure.in - preparation for Autoconf 2 upgrade.
-- `man' directory reorganized.
-- The `dvi' and `info' targets now work in the man directory.
-- texinfo 3.7 no longer comes with XEmacs.  User must supply own
   makeinfo or TeX to rebuild info files or to print hardcopy.
-- execvp has been encapsulated.  The command line of executed
   commands now is converted using pathname-coding-system before the
   command is run.
-- Use flag -fno-gnu-linker if using gcc with dynodump (i.e. on
   solaris)
-- m4-mode 1.8
-- etags.c 11.78
-- ilisp 5.8
-- cperl-mode 1.28
-- cc-mode 4.322
-- elp 2.37
-- python-mode 2.83
-- load-warn-when-source-newer now defaults to t
-- purespace messages from loadup.el now much more reasonable.
-- Changed lispref documentation to refer to frame properties, not parameters.
-- Synched up files.el: file-relative-name (Steven Baur's patch)
-- Fix: shell history works if commands contain non-ASCII characters.
-- Fix: shell commands can contain non-ASCII characters.
-- Fix: dired on Non-ASCII filename now works
-- Fix: repeat-complex-command fails when repeating M-x emacs-version
-- tm 7.94 integrated - default in XEmacs/Mule
   - Japanese newsgroups now readable without .emacs modifications.
-- Johan Vroman's iso-acc.el ported to XEmacs by Alexandre Oliva
-- Made startup option processing more sensible 
   - Eliminate most order dependencies
   - more compatible with FSF
   - Some additional flags (-V equivalent to -version, -flags == -help)
-- Michael Sperber's psgml-html patch
-- Makefile rule to create TAGS file now properly creates tags for
   DEFVAR_* macros.
-- DEFUN macro has major facelift:
   - No need to specify both Ffoo and Sfoo
   - Arglist is more Lispy - no more K&R style function definitions.
   - DOC file creation modified to deal with new style DEFUN.
-- X selection code Re-Mule-ized - Should interoperate with other X clients.
-- beginnings of TM integration
-- When regexp is [^CHARACTERS] and first character of string is
   non-ASCII character, XEmacs crashes.  Fixed for real this time?
-- fixed redundant, buggy calls to (message (format ...))
   In particular (occur "%") now works.
-- support for creating .i files (useful for debugging) in src/
-- make src/Makefile.in.in makefile-mode-friendly
-- define and use macros XSTRING_LENGTH, XSTRING_DATA, with obvious
   meanings.
-- eliminate calls to x_smash_bastardly_shell_position.  The Xt shell
   widget core fields are no longer overwritten with values that Xt
   would not have put there itself.
-- support for CDE drag and drop of data, not just files.
-- XIM patch from Jareth Hein (but XIM still doesn't work for him)
-- COMPREHENSIBLE puresize information when --with-debug specified
-- if get_eof_char is called without a pty, should not call tcgetattr()
-- Fix crash if delete-frame-hook selects the about-to-be-deleted
   frame, by calling delete-frame-hook at the beginning of
   delete-frame code.
-- Fix run-time warnings detected by Sun WorkShop dbx rtc tool.
-- possible fix for assertion failure in open-network-stream
-- server-make-window-visible more portable
-- locate-library now accpts both symbols and strings.
-- buffer names in the buffer menus are no longer translated - they
   are put into the `suffix' part of the label.

