From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Use emacs-24, not trunk (was: emacs 24.4.50.9 is broken!) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:57:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhux4u7k.fsf_-_@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> References: <87ioq23hkx.fsf@talktalk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398157182 29499 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2014 08:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 22 10:59:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWY3-0006uU-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:59:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWY3-0005Rv-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWW2-0002eT-4D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWVt-0007Tx-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:33931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WcWVt-0007Sy-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 04:57:13 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgYGAHwtVlOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZrluZZ4EqdIIlAQEEAXkQURAESROILAEMCKlrmwoBh0IXh1eGfweEOASfMowQgzM7 Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2014 10:57:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:11:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97308 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> For those who are thinking of rebuilding today's emacs 24.4.50.9 from the >> development branch, it is broken in a rather subtle way, when using gnus it >> will not get any pop3 emails! Just to warn you :) > > Yes, please rebuild from the `emacs-24' branch instead and help us debug > the pretest instead of wasting your time on `trunk'. Would it make sense to patch trunk to make it emit a message explaining that ? Perhaps like the "pure space overflow" message. It could be controlled by a variable which would default to 't' in trunk and 'nil' in emacs-24. -- Nico.