XEmacs FAQ [6/6]


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Subject: Introduction

This is part 6 of the XEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list. This section will change monthly, and contains any interesting items that have transpired over the previous month. If you are reading this from the XEmacs distribution, please see the version on the Web or archived at the various FAQ FTP sites, as this file is surely out of date.

If you have a Web browser, the official hypertext version is at: <URL:http://www.sccon.com/~andreas/xemacs-current.html>, and also at: <URL:http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-miscellaneous.html>. This version is much nicer than the unofficial hypertext versions that are archived at Utrecht, Oxford, Smart Pages, and other FAQ archives.

This file was last modified on Feburary 23, 1998.

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Subject: Roadmap

  1. Introduction, policy, credits.
  2. Installation and Trouble Shooting
  3. Customization and Options
  4. Major Subsystems
  5. Miscellaneous
  6. Current Events[You are here]

Current Events


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Subject: Q6.0.1 What is new in 20.2?

The biggest changes in 20.2 include intergration of EFS (the next generation of ange-ftp) and AUC Tex (the Emacs subsystem that includes a major mode for editing Tex and LaTeX, and a lot of other stuff). Many bugs from 20.0 have been fixed for this release. 20.2 also contains a new system for customizing XEmacs options, invoked via M-x customize.

XEmacs 20.2 is the development release (20.0 was beta), and is no longer considered unstable.

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Subject: Q6.0.2 What is new in 20.3?

XEmacs release 20.3 is planned for autumn 1997. It will likely contain a much smaller amount of code for basic functionality, with all the popular Lisp packages being available in the form of easy-to-install add-ons.

Other input methods (such as skk) will be made available for Mule, as well as more user-level documentation.

Many new features are planned, such as multiple TTY frames, support for Autoconf 2, synches with Emacs 20.1, and more; much of this is already running in various beta versions. Ask at xemacs-beta-request@xemacs.org for more details.

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Subject: Q6.0.3 Procedural changes in XEmacs development.

  1. Discussion about the development of XEmacs occurs on the xemacs-beta mailing list. Subscriptions to this list will now be fully automated instead of being handled by hand. Send a mail message to xemacs-beta-request@xemacs.org with a subject of subscribe to join the list. Please note this is a developers mailing list for people who have an active interest in the development process.
  2. Due to the long development cycle in between releases, it has been decided that intermediate versions will be made available in source only form for the truly interested.
  3. No further XEmacs 19 feature releases are planned. XEmacs 19.16 will consist of 19.15 plus the collected bugfixes, and will probably be the final version of XEmacs 19.
  4. As of December 1996, Steve Baur <steve@altair.xemacs.org> has become the lead maintainer of XEmacs.

This FAQ is Copyright © 1998 by various people, and edited by Andreas Kaempf. Please send comments, and suggestions to Andreas Kaempf <andreas@sccon.com>.

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