MORE.STUFF correction

* MORE.STUFF correction
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@ 2004-09-07  6:30 ` Janusz S. Bień
  2004-09-15 10:05   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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From: Janusz S. Bień @ 2004-09-07  6:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ttn

MORE.STUFF from yesterday's CVS says:

 * EDB: database:
   <URL:http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/%7Emernst/software/edb-mrp.tar.gz>
   Not maintained?

For up-to-date information see below.

Best regards

Janusz

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004  Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@surf.glug.org> wrote:

> EDB is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
> 
> README excerpt:
> 
>         This directory contains EDB, the Emacs Database.
>         EDB was written by Michael Ernst <mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu>,
>         and is being maintained by Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>.
> 
> NEWS excerpt:
> 
>   - 1.22 | 2004-06-02
> 
>         This is a cleanup release (perhaps one of several) following
>         maintainership transfer from Michael Ernst, the author of EDB,
>         to Thien-Thi Nguyen, the slowly-searching student of EDB (and
>         other works of codified thought).
> 
>         Cleanup means adding "./configure && make && make install"
>         support (including commonly related things like "make dist",
>         NEWS file, etc); minor upgrading of the elisp dialect and
>         style; and bundling the examples.  A request for outstanding
>         bugfixes posted to one of the newsgroups has gone unanswered
>         to date, so this release includes no bugfixes.
> 
>         The programming interface has not changed.  Those elements
>         mentioned in the info pages are guaranteed to NOT change for
>         all 1.x versions of EDB.  If you have written an application
>         based on EDB that uses undocumented elements, you can either
>         contribute doc patches (which if accepted would result in
>         those elements being guaranteed to NOT change), or prepare
>         yourself for the necessity of rewriting that particular code
>         if/when the undocumented elements change.
> 
> cvs tag:
> 
> 	v-1-22
> 
> tarball, anoncvs instructions, and other files in dir:
> 
> 	http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/edb/
> 
> a big thanks goes to Michael Ernst, first and foremost for writing EDB,
> and second for passing on its maintenance so that it can be improved by
> the free software community (at least, the part that uses Emacs :-).
> 
> EDB hackers should note that "sed '/^;/d' d*.el | wc" for 1.22 shows
> shrinkage compared to that for 1.21 (take that as a hint as to the kinds
> of patches likely to be accepted for 1.x).  EDB 1.x wants code bummers!
> 
> a quick glance at the emacswiki does not show anything EDB related, so
> if someone (who knows the wiki organization better than i do) can make
> a space for EDB, we can use that for notes on 2.x design (and/or 1.x
> concerns).
> 
> happy hacking,
> thi
> 
> 
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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw Uniwersity (Chair of Formal Linguistics)
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