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You are running a potentially unstable version of XEmacs. Please do not report problems with Beta XEmacs to comp.emacs.xemacs. Report them to mailto:xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, preferably with M-x report-xemacs-bug RET.
1.1 Mailing Lists | ||
1.2 Beta Release Schedule |
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If you are not subscribed to the XEmacs beta list you should be. Currently all discussion of development issues, including bug reports and coding discussion, takes place on the XEmacs Beta mailing list. Only patches and administrative actions regarding patches are sent elsewhere (to the XEmacs Patches list).
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XEmacs Patches records proposed changes to XEmacs, and their disposition. It is open subscription, and all patches that are seriously proposed for inclusion in XEmacs should be posted here. You can follow progress of your patch by subscribing to the mailing list or in the archives.
Besides patches, only actions by members of the XEmacs Review Board should be posted to this list. All discussion should be redirected to XEmacs Beta or XEmacs Design.
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XEmacs Design is for design discussions such as adding major features or whole modules, or reimplementation of existing functions, to XEmacs.
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In the descriptions below, the word LIST (all uppercase) is a variable. Substitute "beta", "design", or "patches" as appropriate (to get "xemacs-beta" as the mailbox for the XEmacs Beta mailing list, or http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/#xemacs-beta for its URL).
The XEmacs mailing lists are managed by the Mailman mailing list package, and the usual Mailman commands work. Do not send mailing list requests to the main address (mailto:xemacs-LIST@xemacs.org), always send them to mailto:xemacs-LIST-request@xemacs.org. If you have problems with the list itself, they should be brought to the attention of the XEmacs Mailing List manager mailto:list-manager@xemacs.org (the same mailbox, "list-manager", for all lists). All public mailing lists have searchable archives. The URL is
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-LIST
Note that the xemacs-LIST-admin address is used internally by the Mailman software; it is NOT a synonym for xemacs-LIST-request.
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Subscription, unsubscription, and options (such as digests and temporarily suspending delivery) can be accomplished via the web interface at http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/#xemacs-LIST.
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Send an email message to mailto:xemacs-LIST-request@xemacs.org with `subscribe' (without the quotes) as the BODY of the message.
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We would like to achieve a weekly or fortnightly release cycle (you know the Open Source model: release early, release often), and in a perfect world that would indeed be the case. There are at least three things that often get in the way of that goal: 1) The Release Manager has a life outside of XEmacs (hard to believe, I know, but true), 2) we like to make releases that will build (at least on the Release Manager's box), and 3) Murphy likes to throw a spanner in the works right when you least expect it (Murphy's Law: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong).
If you'd like to keep right up to date and ride the bleeding edge, use CVS (see http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html). If you can't use CVS for some reason and must use FTP, please let us know. it will make it more likely that we release betas more often.
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2.1 Getting the Source | ||
2.2 Building an XEmacs from patches | ||
2.3 Building XEmacs from a full distribution |
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We provide the traditional tarballs and release-to-release patchkits for each beta release. See section 1.2 Beta Release Schedule. These are available at
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/
In addition to the normal tar distribution, XEmacs source is now available via CVS. Please see
http://www.xemacs.org/Develop/cvsaccess.html
You can also browse the repository via ViewCVS
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All beta releases of XEmacs provide patches from the previous version as an alternative to keep bandwidth requirements down. These patches are actually scripts generated by the `makepatch' program, and can be run if you have the `applypatch' program. Patches may also be applied with the GNU patch program in something like the following. Let's say you're upgrading XEmacs 21.5-beta9 to XEmacs 21.5-beta10 and you have a full unmodified XEmacs 21.5-beta9 source tree to work with. Change to the top level directory and issue the shell command:
$ gunzip -c /tmp/xemacs-21.5.9-21.5.10.patch.gz | patch -p1 |
After patching, check to see that no patches were missed by doing
$ find . -name \*.rej -print |
Any rejections should be treated as serious problems to be resolved before building XEmacs.
After seeing that there were no rejections, issue the commands
$ ./config.status --recheck $ make beta > ./beta.err 2>&1 $ make check > ./xemacs-make-check.err 2>&1 |
Redirect the output from make to those files because you'll use them later when you send off a build report with M-x build-report RET
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$ gunzip -c /tmp/xemacs-21.5.10.tar.gz | tar xvf - |
(or simply tar zxvf /tmp/xemacs-21.5.10.tar.gz
if you use GNU tar).
configure
. If you are new, just consider running it with no
options, to see if you can get a successful build. When you are more
experienced, you should put various flags in. Here is what we suggest:
--enable-debug --enable-memory-usage-stats --enable-error-checking=all |
These turn on extra debugging info and checks. The last one in particular will add a great deal of extra error-checking -- which will slow your XEmacs down somewhat but is likely to catch bugs much sooner and make your bug reports much more useful.
--enable-mule --enable-kkcc --enable-pdump --enable-clash-detection --with-wmcommand --with-xfs |
These turn on optional features, which can always use testing.
--with-compiler=gcc --with-xemacs-compiler=g++ |
This will compile XEmacs using g++, which is generally much stricter about type-checking than C compilers like gcc.
--with-package-path=~/.xemacs::/xemacs/site-packages:/xemacs/xemacs-packages:/xemacs/mule-packages |
configure
from the top level of these (currently empty)
directories and use an option like
--srcdir=/xemacs/source-tree |
(or wherever your source tree is). This will magically create symlinks and populate your build directory.
--with-site-prefixes=/usr/local/pgsql:/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1 |
--with-gtk=no --with-gnome=no
.)
Part of the configure output is a summary that looks something like the following. (this summary is also available as the file 'Installation' in the top directory of your build tree, and via the command M-x describe-installation RET).
uname -a: Darwin laptop.local 7.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.7.0: Sun Nov 7 16:06:51 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.5.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc ./configure '--with-site-prefixes=/sw' '--without-ldap' '--with-dynamic=yes' '--with-gtk=no' '--with-gnome=no' '--enable-toolbars' '--with-wmcommand' '--with-athena=3d' '--enable-menubars=lucid' '--enable-scrollbars=athena' '--enable-dialogs=athena' '--enable-widgets=athena' '--with-gif' '--enable-sound=native,noesd' '--with-site-lisp=no' '--with-site-modules' '--enable-pdump' '--enable-mule' '--with-xfs' '--enable-debug' '--enable-error-checking=all' '--enable-memory-usage-stats' '--enable-kkcc' '--enable-clash-detection' XEmacs 21.5-b19 "chives" (+CVS-20050226) configured for `powerpc-apple-darwin7.7.0'. WARNING: -------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: This was produced from a new autoconf-2.5 based configuration. WARNING: If this configuration seems buggy then copy etc/configure-2.13 WARNING: to configure and try again. Also please report the bug. WARNING: -------------------------------------------------------------- Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults: Source code location: /usr/local/src/xemacs Installation prefix: /usr/local Additional prefixes: /sw Operating system description file: `s/darwin.h' Machine description file: `m/powerpc.h' Compiler version: gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671) - GCC specs file: /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs - Compiler command: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith -Wunused-parameter -g libc version: Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: no - The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw3d - Athena library to link: Xaw3d Using Lucid menubars. Using Athena scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: postgresql/libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Mail: Compiling in support for "file" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new GC algorithms. Using the new portable dumper. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- |
$ make > ./beta.err 2>&1 $ make check > ./xemacs-make-check.err 2>&1 |
...and you should have a working XEmacs.
Preferably this is best done from XEmacs, following these simple steps:
See also http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/Public-21.2/tester.html#reporting
If you create the report manually by other means, here is what the build report should include:
For convenience all of the above items are placed in a file called `Installation' in the top level build directory. They are also available by performing M-x describe-installation inside XEmacs.
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[Note: these instructions have been partly updated, but not carefully reviewed in some time. Caveat tester.]
Starting with XEmacs 21.1, much of the functionality of XEmacs has been unbundled into "the packages." For more information about the package system, see the Info nodes on Packages (in the XEmacs User Manual) and on Packaging (in the Lisp Reference).
When bootstrapping XEmacs, you may need to manually install some packages (at least xemacs-base and efs). These packages are available by FTP at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/.
3.1 Binary package installation | ||
3.2 Manual procedures for package management | ||
3.3 Building XEmacs and XEmacs packages from scratch |
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Prerequisite: XEmacs 21.0-b1.
Binary packages are complete entities that can be untarred at the top level of an XEmacs package hierarchy and work at runtime. To install files in this directory, run the command M-x package-admin-add-binary-package and fill in appropriate values to the prompts.
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Prerequisite: XEmacs 21.0
When adding and deleting files from a lisp directory the auto-autoloads.el (global symbols) and custom-load.el (Customization groups) must be kept in synch. Assuming one is manipulating a directory called `lisp-utils', the command to rebuild the auto-autoloads.el file is:
xemacs -vanilla -batch \ -eval \("setq autoload-package-name \"lisp-utils\""\) \ -f batch-update-directory lisp-utils |
The command to rebuild the custom-load.el file is:
xemacs -vanilla -batch -f Custom-make-dependencies lisp-utils |
To byte-compile both of these files the command is:
xemacs -vanilla -batch -f batch-byte-compile \ lisp-utils/auto-autoloads.el lisp-utils/custom-load.el |
Of course, being a beta tester, you'd be aware that it is much easier to manage your XEmacs packages with PUI.
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To build everything completely from scratch isn't hard, just time consuming.
$ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs login [password: "cvs" (sans quotes)] $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs co -d xemacs-21.5 xemacs $ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs co packages |
$ cd xemacs-21.5 $ ./configure [options...] $ make > ./beta.err 2>&1 $ make check > ./xemacs-make-check.err 2>&1 |
And optionally:
$ make install > ./xemacs-make-install.err 2>&1 |
$ cd packages $ cp Local.rules.template Local.rules |
Then edit Local.rules to suit your needs/environment (see section `Local.rules file' in XEmacs User's Manual) for details about this file.
And then:
$ make install |
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The best way to get problems fixed in XEmacs is to submit good problem reports, M-x report-xemacs-bug RET will help you do this (assuming you have a usable XEmacs). Since this is beta software, problems are certain to exist. Please read through all of part II of the XEmacs FAQ for an overview of problem reporting. @xref{Installation, Installation and Troubleshooting, , xemacs-faq}. The most relevant parts are in section 2.4, General Troubleshooting. Other items which are most important are:
xemacs -no-autoloads
. Quite often, problems are
due to package interdependencies, and the like. An actual bug
in XEmacs should be reproducible in a default configuration
without loading any special packages (or the one or two specific
packages that cause the bug to appear). If you have trouble
getting anything to work at all with the above invocation, use
xemacs -vanilla
instead. If you need to load your user init
file or the site file to get the problem to occur, then it has
something to do with them, and you should try to isolate the
issue in those files.
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4.1 Creating patches for submission | ||
4.2 Large contributions |
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All patches to XEmacs that are seriously proposed for inclusion (eg, bug fixes) should be mailed to mailto:xemacs-patches@xemacs.org. Each patch will be reviewed by the patches review board, and will be acknowledged and added to the distribution, or rejected with an explanation. Progress of the patch is tracked on the XEmacs Patches mailing list, which is open subscription. (If a patch is simply intended to facilitate discussion, "I mean something that works like this but this is really rough", a Cc to XEmacs Patches is optional, but doesn't hurt.)
Patches to XEmacs Lisp packages should be sent to the maintainer of the package. If the maintainer is listed as `XEmacs Development Team' patches should be sent to mailto:xemacs-patches@xemacs.org.
Emailed patches should preferably be sent in MIME format and quoted printable encoding (if necessary).
The simplest way to create well-formed patches is to use CVS and Didier Verna's Patcher library (available as patcher.el in the xemacs-devel package). Patcher is new and requires some setup, but most of the core developers are now using it for their own patches. Patcher also can be configured to create patches for several projects, and recognize the project from the directory it is invoked in. This makes it a useful general tool (as long as XEmacs-style patches are accepted at your other projects, which is likely since they conform to the GNU standards).
When making patches by hand, please use the `-u' option, or if your diff doesn't support it, `-c'. Using ordinary (context-free) diffs are notoriously prone to error, since line numbers tend to change when others make changes to the same source file.
An example of the `diff' usage:
$ diff -u OLDFILE NEWFILE |
-or-
$ diff -c OLDFILE NEWFILE |
Also, it is helpful if you create the patch in the top level of the XEmacs source directory:
$ cp -p lwlib/xlwmenu.c lwlib/xlwmenu.c.orig hack, hack, hack.... $ diff -u lwlib/xlwmenu.c.orig lwlib/xlwmenu.c |
Also note that if you cut & paste from an xterm to an XEmacs mail buffer you will probably lose due to tab expansion. The best thing to do is to use an XEmacs shell buffer to run the diff commands, or ... M-x cd to the appropriate directory, and issue the command C-u M-! from within XEmacs.
Patches should be as single-minded as possible. Mammoth patches can be very difficult to place into the right slot. They are much easier to deal with when broken down into functional or conceptual chunks. The patches submitted by Kyle Jones and Hrvoje Niksic are stellar examples of how to "Do The Right Thing".
Each patch should be accompanied by an update to the appropriate ChangeLog file. Guidelines for writing ChangeLog entries is governed by the GNU coding standards. Please see http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html [Change Logs section] for details.
Do not submit context diffs (either -c or -u) of ChangeLogs. Because of the "stack" nature of ChangeLogs (new entries are always pushed on the top), context diffs will fail to apply more often than they succeed. Simply cutting and pasting the entry from an Emacs buffer to the mail buffer (beware of tab expansion!) is probably easiest. The Patcher library also will set up your ChangeLogs for you, and copy them to the mail. Context-less unified diffs (-U 0) are also acceptable.
4.1.1 Patch discussion etiquette |
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If you intend a patch for _application_ to the sources as is, _always_ post it to xemacs-patches, even if there are minor points you would like to have discussed by others. Not doing so will resulting in patches getting "lost". If you expect that the patch will not be acceptable, but are using it to stimulate discussion, then don't post to xemacs-patches. Intermediate cases are up to your judgment; unless you're sure you'll follow up with a "real" patch, better to err on the side of posting to xemacs-patches.
Discussion of the _content_ of the patch (ie responses to reviewer comments beyond "that's right, ok, I'll do it your way") should _always_ be posted to xemacs-beta or to xemacs-design. If you're not sure which is more appropriate, send it to xemacs-beta. That is the most widely read channel.
If discussion results in a bright idea and you come up with a new patch, normally you should post it to both mailing lists. The people discussing on XEmacs Beta will want to know the outcome of the thread, and you need to submit to XEmacs Patches as the "list of record."
If the old patch has been applied to CVS, then just submit the new one as usual. If it has not been applied, then it is best to submit a new patch against CVS. If possible do this as a reply to the original patch post, or something following it in the thread. (The point is to get the original patch post's Message-ID in your References header.) In this case, also use the keyword SUPERSEDES in the Subject header to indicate that the old patch is no longer valid, and that this one replaces it.
These rules will result in a fair number of cross posts, but we don't yet have a better way to handle that.
Note: Developers should never post to xemacs-patches unless there is a patch in the post. We plan to enforce this with an automatic filter.
The exceptions are administrative. If you have commit authorization, then post a short COMMIT notice to xemacs-patches when you commit to CVS. Members of the Review Board will also post short notices of administrative action (APPROVE, VETO, QUERY, etc) to xemacs-patches.
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Perhaps you have a whole new mode, or a major synchronization with upstream for a neglected package, or a synchronization with GNU Emacs you would like to contribute. We welcome such contributions, but they are likely to be relatively controversial, generate more comments and requests for revision, and take longer to integrate. Please be patient with the process.
4.2.1 Updates to existing packages | ||
4.2.2 New packages | ||
4.2.3 Syncing with GNU Emacs |
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If a package has gotten a bit out of date, or even started to bitrot, we welcome patches to synchronize it with upstream/GNU Emacs versions. Most packages end up varying somewhat from their GNU origins. See "Syncing with GNU Emacs" for hints. Note that if you do a reasonably large amount of syncing with GNU Emacs, you should log this in the file itself as well as in the ChangeLog.
If the package is important to you, please consider becoming the maintainer. (See "New packages", below.)
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If you have a new mode or other large addition that does not require changes to the core, please consider submitting it as a package, and becoming the maintainer. You get direct commit privileges to the repository for your package, "approval" privileges for your own patches as well as third party patches to your package, and some degree of veto power over patches you don't like. In return, you are expected to maintain friendly liaison with the upstream developer (if you aren't the upstream developer), keep watch on the XEmacs Patches list for relevant patches, and be available by email to other developers for discussion of changes that impact your package. It's also a pretty standard route to the "core" development group, where we have plenty of extra work waiting for volunteers.
You don't have to become the maintainer, but it virtually ensures rapid acceptance of the package.
For help in creating new packages, see the (rather sparse) discussions in the XEmacs User's Guide and the Lisp Reference Manual. The participants in the XEmacs Beta mailing list mailto:xemacs-beta@xemacs.org and the XEmacs Package Release Engineer are the most likely sources of advice. See jobs.html for current information about package release engineers.
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Syncing with GNU Emacs is an important activity. Although each version has its advantages and areas of concentration, it is very desirable that common functionality share specifications and APIs. When porting GNU code to XEmacs, the following points should be given special attention:
It is important that you let other developers know that synchronization has taken place, to what degree, and when. For this purpose, we use comments of the form
/* Synched up with: GNU 21.3 by Stephen Turnbull */ |
in the source file itself, as the last element of the prefatory material (copyright notice and commentary). Obviously the comment marker needs to be changed to leading semicolons for Lisp, but otherwise the format is the same. (Older sync comments may have "FSF" in place of "GNU". They're equally accurate in our opinion, but Richard Stallman and other GNU developers consider the term "FSF Emacs" "insulting". Please use "GNU" in new sync comments.)
Of course you should note syncing as the purpose in the ChangeLog, too. But entries get buried deep in the ChangeLog file, and may even get moved to a separate ChangeLog.OLD file for rarely synched files.
Rather than dates we use the version of GNU Emacs to sync to. If the synchronization is partial, add a new comment describing what has actually been synched, leaving the description of the last full sync in place. At each full sync, remove all previous synchronization comments.
This applies to Lisp that we have broken out into packages, but remains in the GNU Emacs core, as well to core Lisp in XEmacs.
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1. Introduction
1.1 Mailing Lists2. Building Beta XEmacs
1.1.1 XEmacs Beta Mailing List1.2 Beta Release Schedule
1.1.2 XEmacs Patches Mailing List
1.1.3 XEmacs Design Mailing List
1.1.4 List Administrivia
1.1.5 Managing your subscription via the Web
1.1.6 Subscribing by e-mail
1.1.7 Unsubscribing by e-mail
2.1 Getting the Source3. Packages
2.2 Building an XEmacs from patches
2.3 Building XEmacs from a full distribution
3.1 Binary package installation4. Improving XEmacs
3.2 Manual procedures for package management
3.3 Building XEmacs and XEmacs packages from scratch
3.4 Reporting Problems
4.1 Creating patches for submissionIndex
4.1.1 Patch discussion etiquette4.2 Large contributions
4.2.1 Updates to existing packages
4.2.2 New packages
4.2.3 Syncing with GNU Emacs
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1. Introduction
2. Building Beta XEmacs
3. Packages
4. Improving XEmacs
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