What Gnus version for XEmacs 19.14?

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

>>>>> "jan" == vroonhof  <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

    jan> Dear Lars and ding list readers (Note that I only
    jan> occasionally browse the list)

>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

    Per> 5.0.12 is the release at Lars' site.  Emacs 19.30 will have
    Per> 5.1.  I'm more curious about what will be in XEmacs 19.14.
    Per> It might be a good idea to make an unbundled 5.1.1 release
    Per> after Emacs 19.30 has been released.

    jan> Now that 19.30 is out. I am even more for such an unbundled
    jan> release.  I want the bug fixes in 5.1 without getting the
    jan> whole 19.30 distribution. At the moment I don't want to ask
    jan> our sysadmin people to upgrade our 19.28, because it is
    jan> difficult enough even to get them to do more urgent things.

    jan> Besides, I discovered enough discspace to install my own
    jan> (self maintained) copy of XEmacs 19.13 and really am thinking
    jan> of switching now. So having an up to date copy of a stable
    jan> gnus with XEmacs support would be nice.

    jan> I consider it a mistake to ship packages that don't support
    jan> XE with E and vice versa, because it makes library sharing
    jan> betweem them unnecesairily difficult for some small savings
    jan> in discspace.

    jan> Enyoing GNUS very much, thank you,

What version to put with XEmacs 19.14?  I've been wondering about this
one too.  The problem with 5.0.12 is that it has a lot of bugs in it,
and I would rate the stability of the latest September Gnus (v0.16) to
be superior at this time (considering the basic/older features and
XEmacs only).

Given also that the internal .newsrc format has changed, and older
versions are ``poison'', I never bothered to even start 5.1 -- I
installed September when I installed Emacs 19.30.

One possibility is to phase it in, like they did with mailcrypt in the
19.13 release.  Leave old GNUS as the default, but include the latest
version of September Gnus for those who wish to try it.  By the time
19.15 is ready, September Gnus should be 5.2 and solid (my unofficial
guess).

    jan> Jan

    jan> P.S. Where did the versionnumber in the (nice) startup screen
    jan> go?

There was a discussion on this list about this in mid-September.  See
the hypermail archive <URL: http://www.miranova.com/gnus-list/Sep-1995/>
and the thread ``Guess this is a faq.. How to post to foreign groups?''
for the gory details.  In short, you only see version numbers when *not*
running an officially bundled Gnus.

Regards,
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur