From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Martin Schwenke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gnuclient vs Emacsclient Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:05:04 +1000 Message-ID: <17717.21392.825511.436027@martins.ozlabs.org> References: <453539F7.20306@pajato.com> Reply-To: Martin Schwenke NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161122780 419 80.91.229.2 (17 Oct 2006 22:06:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 00:06:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx4c-0006VJ-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:06:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx4c-0002VY-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx4O-0002SI-6y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:05:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx4E-0002D1-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx4E-0002Ci-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.10.76.45] (helo=ozlabs.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GZx4D-0002ek-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 954E267BF7; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:05:41 +1000 (EST) Original-To: Paul Michael Reilly In-Reply-To: <453539F7.20306@pajato.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60835 Archived-At: >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Michael Reilly writes: Paul> Left to my own devices I am inclined to pick one of the Paul> gnuserv variants and get it working within the current Emacs Paul> CVS tree and then retire emacsclient/emacsserver. Probably Paul> Alan Donovan's, FWIW My approach has been to pull the latest gnuclient/gnuserv out of the current XEmacs (possibly CVS?), since this will be the most up-to-date, combine it with some autoconf stuff and distribute it via: http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/ The latest version is: http://meltin.net/hacks/emacs/src/gnuserv-3.12.7.tar.gz Various GNU/Linux distributions and, by the look of it, Mac OS/X have picked up this version and distribute it. I recently noticed a security vulnerability being fixed in gnuserv so I'm planning to see if I can pick up the most recent version and release a new package as soon as possible. Hopefully not too much has changed... While there have been some improvements to emacsclient/server a quick look at the Emacs 22 prerelease suggests that it still doesn't have all of the features of gnuclient/gnuserv. It doesn't seem likely that gnuserv will ever be included in GNU Emacs - I was last involved in a discussion on this topic about 4 years ago and the suggestion was to reimplement the missing features in emacsclient/server. peace & happiness, martin