From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Friesenhahn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:34:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: References: <87lgc3j29t.fsf@petton.fr> <8760341amh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d0xbhn3a.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527780798 965 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 15:33:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 15:33:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 17:33:14 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPZi-00008k-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 17:33:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPbp-0008Eu-88 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPbB-0008DA-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPb8-0007Fx-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.simplesystems.org ([65.66.246.90]:60688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOPb8-0007Eo-1Z; Thu, 31 May 2018 11:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from scrappy.simplesystems.org (scrappy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.73]) by smtp.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w4VFYdRV027878; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:34:39 -0500 (CDT) X-X-Sender: bfriesen@scrappy.simplesystems.org In-Reply-To: <83d0xbhn3a.fsf@gnu.org> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (smtp.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Thu, 31 May 2018 10:34:39 -0500 (CDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux (Android) [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 65.66.246.90 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225852 Archived-At: On Thu, 31 May 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:07:01 -0500 (CDT) >> From: Bob Friesenhahn >> Cc: Nicolas Petton , Emacs Devel >> >> If there are specific package versions required, then they should be >> listed in the installation documentation. > > That'd be nice to have, but I'm not sure we have the resources to > provide an accurate list and keep it up to date. All the other > projects I've built never provide such info, you have to "discover" > that by building and getting error messages that tell you what minimal > version is required. > > But if someone wants to arrange such a list (in INSTALL, I think?), it > would be very welcome. Developers should be cognizant of the packages they are requiring to be used. It would be very helpful if configure specified what it is specifically looking for, and includes what it needs in the error message. It seems that the new emacs silently quit last night while the screen was locked. I may need to retreat to the previous release (25.3). Something else I notice is that when I open a file which is in a Mercurial repository, the /usr/bin/hg program crashes and I get an Ubuntu crash report. The Ubuntu crash report screen does not allow me to copy text from it, but the command executed which crashed starts with '/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hg log -r . -l1 -template ...'. This does not happen with emacs-25.3. The crash is due to use of a None value. The version of Mercurial provided by this Ubuntu release is 2.8.2. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/