From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83234 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Kupfer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: XEmacs builds failing - gnus-spec.el Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:22:46 -0700 Message-ID: <201305280022.r4S0MkdU026062@shell0.rawbw.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369700678 9986 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2013 00:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 00:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31500@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 28 02:24:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh7iN-0001VM-KR for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 02:24:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh7gx-0007WU-4r; Mon, 27 May 2013 19:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh7gu-0007WD-9l for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 May 2013 19:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh7gj-0004HH-6r for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 May 2013 19:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from shell0.rawbw.com ([198.144.192.45] ident=root) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uh7gh-00046w-58 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 02:22:51 +0200 Original-Received: from rawbw.com (m208-249.dsl.rawbw.com [198.144.208.249]) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4S0MkdU026062; Mon, 27 May 2013 17:22:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike.kupfer@xemacs.org) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:17 +0900." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.3; XEmacs 21.5 (beta33) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83234 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: > mike.kupfer@xemacs.org wrote: [...] > As for url.el originated in W3, the code is too old to use with > Gnus for both 21.5 and 21.4. I don't think `url-retrieve' that > gnus-compat.el redefines helps. A workaround attached below is > the one I used to use, but I'm not sure if they are still useful > since I haven't been using XEmacs for a couple of years. For > the same reason, and since I failed to have taken notes, I don't > recall other matters I faced. That's okay--I appreciate the information about the url code and the sample workaround code. Thanks. > > Are there any bug reports that you can point me at? > > I'm no longer suitable for doing it, sorry. The foremost reason > I got not to use XEmacs is that now I'm using Cygwin for almost > daytime (in the office). On that platform, I was unable to build > XEmacs 21.5 that works normally. It frequently crashes. > (Even so, I kept building it periodically keeping track of hg. > However, it stopped months ago because it got unable to build > on the latest Cygwin.) Hmm. I don't use Cygwin, so I don't know what the current status is for XEmacs on Cygwin. Looking in the hg log, I do see this fix, so maybe it's worth trying again...? changeset: 5716:1003acd5a4b8 user: Vin Shelton date: Mon Feb 04 20:03:04 2013 -0500 summary: Fix cygwin build on new win32api. > > Yes, 21.4 is quite old. If it's too much of a hassle for the Gnus > > developers to support, then maybe it's best to drop support for it. > > Then whatever time is available for XEmacs support can be focused on > > 21.5. > > That's good to here from the XEmacs team. :) The only matter is > that there might be no Gnus developers who use 21.5. Understood. I'm hoping to get my packaging workflow running smoothly so that I can track and lightly test development releases of Gnus. (Though I can't say when I'll get to this.) best wishes, mike