From the ChangeLog:
* XEmacs 21.5.19 "chives" is released.
"chives" is the twentieth in the VEGETABLE series.
Relative to XEmacs 21.5.18 "chestnut", "chives" includes a large
number of minor enhancements and work-in-progress. Some important or
annoying bugs have been fixed:
- The lstream data truncation bug (often observed as truncated emails
or truncated process input in buffers) has been identified and
fixed, we believe (hard to test).
- The bug where process output insertion replaced the whole buffer,
rather than just the region, has been fixed.
- The "Metacity maximize" bug (which was XEmacs's fault, not the
window manager's) has been fixed.
Known remaining bugs include:
- Aborts due to recursive entry to the allocation code from error
handlers. Workaround: avoid getting the memory full warnings (at
75% and 95% of memory space).
- A regression test failure in no-Mule builds. Workaround: don't
run the c-tests.el series when running tests. (Simply move
tests/automated/c-tests.el out of the way.)
Currently fairly stable, this seems to be a good point to release a
beta as a checkpoint. At the user level the most visible changes are
extension of the "behavior" mechanism for enabling and disabling
features, and a major reorganization of the documentation in the
source tree. For behaviors, see the Options->Behaviors submenu.
The source documentation changes include
At top level,
README has been gutted, with most content moved to the FAQ.
BUGS and README.packages were removed, with much of their content
moved to the FAQ.
GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE was removed.
In etc,
BETA, CHARSETS, CODING-STANDARDS, CODINGS, DEBUG, DISTRIB, MACHINES,
and PACKAGES were removed, with most content moved to various Texinfo
documents.
FTP, GNU, LPF, MAILINGLISTS MORE.STUFF, MOTIVATION, ORDERS,
ORDERS.EUROPE, ORDERS.JAPAN, README.HYPERBOLE, README.OO-BROWSER,
SERVICE, and TERMS were removed.
PROBLEMS and etc/README were revised.
For developers, the following important internal API changes occurred.
- Initialization code (called from emacs.c:main_1()) has been
refactored. See the ChangeLog (2004-10-27, Ben Wing) for details.
- The GCPRO API has been refactored. See the ChangeLog (2004-10-27,
Ben Wing) for details. (Yes, it was a megapatch: same log entry.)
For more detailed information, there is a list of credits, and then
the full ChangeLogs, following the availability information.
For general information about XEmacs, the developers, and the user
community, see our home page,
http://www.xemacs.org/
Remove esound-support from options.mk until i find the reason why
libossaudio is not used.
Fix canna-support with a patch from Thomas Klausner. Thanks.
From the Releasenotes:
Relative to XEmacs 21.5.17 "chayote", "chestnut" has Jerry James's new
bignum support. You can now keep track of the U.S. national debt to
the penny, or count to Avogadro's number by ones! Speaking of really
big numbers, Malcolm Purvis has one in mind: "two". To GTK+ fans,
that's an awfully big number. It's not here yet, but Malcolm has put
in a lot of patches, and a port to GTK+ v2 could start soon. Jerry
James has started using the Uno code checker to clean up unused
variables and other ugliness. Completion of the portable dumper
project is in sight, as Olivier Galibert has contributed code to
attach the dumpfile to the executable.
A large number of contributors have provided the usual assortment of
bug fixes and feature additions, small and large.
* XEmacs 21.5.17 "chayote" is released.
"chayote" is the eighteenth in the OXYMORON series.
The main purpose of the "chayote" release is to provide a checkpoint
before upcoming major changes. Bignum (infinite precision integer)
support and Xft (including antialiasing) support are expected to be
added in the near future.
Relative to XEmacs 21.5.16 "celeriac", "chayote" has many improvements
in module support from Jerry James, and improved package management
from Steve Youngs. Steve Youngs also ported the "lazy" widget support
from GNU Emacs 21.3, and Jerry James synched frame and window support.
A number of annoying crashes in GTK, in X11 dialogs, and in the
bytecode interpreter were fixed, but several crashes remain.
Changes:
Build
* Autoconf tweaks for building modules on MacOSX - James.
* GCC fixes in ellcc.c - James.
* Module Makefile fixes - Begel, James.
* Fix shadow warning in regex.c - James.
Documentation
* New TeXinfo node "Searching and Matching" - Turnbull.
* New section "Legacy Versions" in FAQ - Turnbull.
* New FAQ question Q8.0.1 - Turnbull.
* Update split-string specs in "Regexp Search" - Turnbull.
Internals
* Package index file updated - Koch.
* Add some debug checks in file-coding.c - Turnbull.
Lisp API
* Make error message report the sym checked in `autoload-featurep-protect-autoloads' - Turnbull.
* `split-string' tweaks - Turnbull.
* Make the location of the package-index file user customisable - Youngs.
* Turn on package-index file PGP verification - Youngs.
* Only use message if interactive for functions in replace.el - Josefsson.
Major change:
The long standing TTY/keyboard bug, the one where RET was behaving
like LFD, is gone! Yes, that's right folks, you can once again use
XEmacs on a TTY.
The rest are the hundreds of bugfixes that usually come with a
beta software.
This release fixes the problem with scrambled screens when using
xemacs in a terminal. Other changes are numerous as its a -current.
Mainly bug fixes.
Please see http://www.xemacs.org for details.
Changes excerpted from ${WRKSRC}/CHANGES-beta.
---
Lots of updates from Ben Wing (as always), also from Andy Piper, Mike
Sperber, and Stephen Turnbull with lots of documentation updates and
fixes. One new exciting addition in this release is that the LDAP and
PostgreSQL code has been extracted out of the core C code and moved to
DSO's. We have Jerry James to thank/blame/worship for that.
Build
-- Reset sheap-adjustment to zero - Piper.
-- Make --pdump default to yes on Linux - Turnbull.
-- Only use -Wpacked in GCC v3 - Wing.
-- Remove LISP_FLOAT_TYPE definition. - James.
-- Temporarily disable DSO's under Cygwin - Wing.
-- Updates to DSO building code (Makefile.in, configure.in etc) - Wing, James.
-- Separate compiler warning flags from CFLAGS - Wing.
-- Delete auto-autoloads.e* & custom-load.e* on 'make clean' - Turnbull.
-- Disable detection of 'getaddrinfo' for HP-UX 11.XX - Turnbull.
-- Include modules directories in 'make tags' - Youngs.
-- Fix shadowing warnings in make-docfile.c - Wing.
-- Move the common stuff from postgresql/ldap Makefile.in.in &
configure.ac's into a "common" Makefile and configure script -
Wing.
-- Major cleanup of ellcc - Wing, James.
-- Add Makefile var to pick up '--site-libraries' in DSO's - Youngs.
-- Avoid unnecessary deviations from UNIX 'describe-installation' in
xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Don't confirm overwriting files in xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Support 'xemacs_extra_name' in xemacs.mak - Aichner.
-- Some gcc/g++ 3 fixes - Wing.
-- Warning fixes - Wing.
-- Fix some C++ errors - Wing.
-- Allow for C needing volatile and C++ that can't have volatile,
remove previous volatile hacks - Wing.
-- Try for a working Cygwin build with old unexec - Wing.
-- Warning suppression - Turnbull.
-- New Mule character class regexp tests - Turnbull, Ueno.
-- Better handling of known bugs in tests - Turnbull.
-- Add test for stale subexpr match-data - Turnbull.
-- Update syntax-table tests - Turnbull.
-- Add word-boundary regexp tests - Turnbull.
Documentation
-- Updates to PROBLEMS file
Running/Linux - Lesstif 0.93.36 - Turnbull
Running/IRIX - Irix 6.5 coredumps - Turnbull
Running/Cygwin - "No cygXpm-noX" fatal error - Turnbull
Missing charsets - Remove ambiguity - Turnbull
Running, General - FontSet warnings - Turnbull
MacOS/X - Stack limitation - Turnbull
Digital Unix - Generalise - Turnbull
AIX - USE_KKCC lossage - Turnbull.
-- Update instructions in info/dir - Wallington.
-- Recommend TeXinfo 4.2 in INSTALL - Turnbull.
-- Add example in sample.Xdefaults - Boffi.
-- Typo fixes - Yamaoka, Youngs, Turnbull, Wing.
-- Docstring fixes - Turnbull, Piper, Skyttä, Wing.
-- Update description of XEmacs Patches and Design ML's - Turnbull.
-- Incorportate ChangeLog.X into ChangeLog - Wing.
-- FAQ additions/amendments:
Debugging FAQ improvements - Wing.
Mention union type bugs - Turnbull.
Debugging HOWTO improvements - Turnbull.
Decoding Lisp objects in the debugger - Turnbull.
Fix location of FAQ on website - Skyttä.
Add missing menu entry for Q3.2.7 - Verna.
Displaying non-ASCII - Turnbull.
Mention bug report commands - Turnbull.
Revise Q1.3.[1-6] - Turnbull.
New FAQ for "no cygXpm-noX" fatal error - Turnbull.
-- New TeXinfo nodes:
"Widget Internals" - Turnbull.
"Simple Specifier Usage" - Turnbull.
"Compilation Options" - Turnbull.
-- Document charset Unification and Tables - Turnbull.
-- Better short description of Mule in Mule submenu - Turnbull.
-- Regression Testing XEmacs design hints & rewrite - Turnbull.
-- Document 'face-frob-from-locale-first' - Golubev.
-- Document 'set-face-background-pixmap-file' - Verna.
-- Add urefs to Doug Lea's * Wolfram Gloger's home pages in "Low-Level
Modules" - Turnbull.
-- Update "Available Packages" - Skyttä.
-- Document 'append' arg of 'add-to-list' - Skyttä.
-- Add optimisation hints in "Techniques for XEmacs Developers" - Turnbull.
Internals
-- Add *menubar*FontSet and *popup*FontSet entries - Turnbull, Skyttä.
-- Extract ldap and postgresql code from core and put them into DSO's - James.
-- 'Fset_window_point' Correct to GNU/Emacs behaviour (fixes some bugs
in Gnus) - Wing.
-- Inhibit GC in critical sections - Wing.
-- Fix calculation in 'report_sheap_usage' - Piper.
-- Implement and use new var 'garbage_collection_messages' - Wallington.
-- Fix 'open_database' for Berkeley DB 4.1.x - Allen.
-- Updates to frame code - Sperber.
-- Change C debugger entrance: error message, then stack trace, then
exiting message, then force debugger - Wing.
-- Use EQ not EQUAL in 'mswindows_init_frame_1' - Wing.
-- Better redisplay-related asserts - Wing.
-- Don't generate large warning strings when they'll be discarded - Wing.
-- Implement 'debug-on-error' as documented - Wing.
-- Fix docs relating to QUIT which can't GC under any circumstances - Wing.
-- More robust package compilation and debugging - Wing.
-- Overhaul profile code - Wing.
-- Fix crashes due to incorrectly ported GNU/Emacs code - Wing.
-- Clean up realpath.c - Wing.
-- DdeCreateStringHandle needs to be manual due to new Cygwin bug - Wing.
-- Fix some Cygwin complaints - Wing.
-- Unconditionally use LISP_FLOAT_TYPE code - James.
-- Improve crash message in 'shut_down_emacs' - Turnbull.
-- Update NAS code for NAS 1.6 and later - Toy.
-- Fix "unused variable" warnings in mule-canna.c - Turnbull.
-- Prototype 'enqueue_focus_event' - Turnbull.
-- Use BORDER_FIDDLE_FACTOR instead of 10 in 'layout_layout' - Piper.
-- Add optional 'noerror' arg to 'Frequire' - Wallington.
-- Only resize 'layout_query_geometry' dynamically if static sizes
haven't been set - Piper.
-- Fix infloop upon a gdm logout - Sigelman.
-- Fix scope of 'num_nonshy_regs' - Turnbull.
-- Fix "stale match data" bug - Turnbull.
-- Don't call 'XtDisplay' on a destroyed widget - Golubev.
-- Update specifier code - Sperber.
-- Update process code - Sperber.
-- Move ldap/postgresql code out to DSO's - James.
-- Normalise Ffile_truename and drive spec on cygwing to win32 format
- Piper.
-- Use 'closesocket' instead of 'CloseHandle' in 'winsock_closer' - Alexander.
-- Coding system updates - Ikiuo.
Lisp API
-- Update window-xemacs.el to fix 'goto-line' - Wing.
-- Add garbage collection messages - Wallington.
-- Re-implement window configurations in Emacs Lisp - Sperber.
-- Enhance background-pixmap-file code - Verna.
-- New macro 'save-window-excursion' to eventually replace bytecode
instruction - Sperber.
-- Move window.el et al up the order in dumped-lisp.el - Sperber.
-- Don't use 'save-window-excursion' in
'shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer' - Sperber.
-- Updates to pixel-size code in dialog.el - Sperber.
-- Remove nonworking 'breakpoint-on-error' - Wing.
-- Extract out 'with-displaying-help-buffer' into a more general mechanism
- Wing.
-- Don't catch errors when noninteractive in startup.el - Wing.
-- Fix warnings in code-files.el, loadhist.el, & package-get.el - Wing.
-- Simplify code in '*-reset-device-font-menus' - James.
-- Synch font-menu.el to the 21.4 version - Turnbull.
-- Preserve return value from 'call-process' - Sperber.
-- New functions in replace.el that operate on regions - Evans.
-- Run 'delete-frame-hook' in general dialogs only - Piper.
-- Add a margin parameter in autoload.el for DSO autoloads - James.
-- Conditionalise autoloads for DSO's on the existence of the DSO - James.
-- Always set module directories/paths in dump-paths.el - James.
-- Bring list of package sites up to date - Skyttä.
-- Add "Find Variable" menu entry for 'hyper-apropos-find-variable' -
Wallington
-- Fix 'view-lossage' interactive spec - Wallington.
-- Synch 'with-output-to-string' with GNU/Emacs 21 - Wallington.
-- Bind C-xrd to 'delete-rectangle' - Yamaoka.
-- Move entries in 'auto-mode-alist' out to packages for the modes
that are in packages - Skyttä
-- New compatible alias for 'lookup-syntax-properties'
('parse-sexp-lookup-properties') - Turnbull.
-- Enable C autoloads for DSO's - James.
-- Update revert-buffer code - Piper.
-- Add new coding system 'utf-8-bom' - Ikiuo.
Changes since 21.5.5 are too many to list here. Please consult www.xemacs.org
for details. There have been mainly hundreds of bug fixes and work has been
done on a new garbage collector which isn't enabled yet. Nothing exitingly
new has been added as far as i know. Mainly internal rework.
This is the *BETA* developement line of XEmacs so handle with care.
This package is based on pkg/14132 contributed by Eric Gillespie Jr.
Most notable change to the release is the possibility to compile
xemacs with gtk+. Set XEMACS_WIDGETS accordingly in your mk.conf
Possible values are:
lucid (default)
gtk
gnome
motif
