Re: emacs-20

Andrew Archibald (aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:19:16 -0400 (EDT)

; Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 09:19:59 EDT
; From: Duane Ellis <duane_ellis@franklin.com>
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; wolfgang kechel> Were can I get those snapshots of emacs 20?
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; I got it from:
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; Please note - (a) I have no idea how stable this is.
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; (b) I have nothing to do with the mule project
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; (c) I just stumbled across it and tried it out.
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; (d) It seems - by looking a the change logs
; they are currently changing and tweaking
; the file that does the multi-byte decoding
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I feel I should point out that this "snapshot" of emacs is not
pulicized for a good reason --- the authors don't want it spread
around, for reputation reasons. Thus, if you're getting it, be aware
that it's prerelease code; and please make sure if you give a copy to
anyone (please don't) that they know that this is prerelease
software. We don't want people thinking that "emacs is buggy" because
they got their hands on a developers' snapshot.

I'm sorry if you've heard this before, but I felt it needed to be
mentioned (it caused some acrimony on usenet lately), and the FSF
folks are probably sick and tired of pointing it out by now.

Incidentally, I don't think guile has the same problem, because it
really is still under development; and the benefits of having a lot of
people hacking on the developers' snapshots is greater than the harm
to its reputation (imho).

Andrew Archibald
aarchiba@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca