Re: timers and itimers

[Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com>]

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* Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

  >> * Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:
  >>> Please keep in mind that the supported versions for Gnus v5.10 are
  >>> XEmacs 21.1 and up; for No Gnus the supported versions are 21.4
  >>> and up.

  >>>>>> In <microsoft-free.87vf9jbzoa.fsf@youngs.au.com> Steve Youngs wrote:

  >> Sure will.  This stuff comes from the packages so there won't be a
  >> problem.

  > Unfortunately, the new xemacs-base package doesn't help all
  > the versions of XEmacsen.

It helps enough, because...

  >>>>>> In <b9y651kq34y.fsf@jpl.org> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

  >> Although there will be many users who seldom upgrade XEmacs and
  >> packages, I think it is worth deleting run-at-time.el and
  >> recommending people the use of the new package.

  > It was necessary to add ``and new XEmacs'' to the last paragraph,
  > sorry.

  > Because of a bug in itimer.el which is embedded in the XEmacs
  > core, even the run-at-time function in the new xemacs-base
  > package won't work correctly with old XEmacsen.  I posted a
  > patch in December 2003[1], Vin Shelton applied it to XEmacs 21.4
  > in January 2004[2], and Jerry James applied it to XEmacs 21.5 in
  > September 2004[3].  Therefore, XEmacs 21.4.15 and 21.5.18 will
  > run timer functions correctly.  I didn't thoroughly check them
  > with old XEmacsen, though.

  > Anyway, can't we fire old XEmacsen even in Gnus v5.10?

...yes.  From XEmacs.org's point of view, packages only have to
support from 21.4 onwards.

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