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MORE.STUFF correction
From: |
Janusz S. Bień |
Subject: |
MORE.STUFF correction |
Date: |
07 Sep 2004 08:30:12 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.95 |
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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>,
> and is being maintained by Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>.
>
> 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)
address@hidden, address@hidden, http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/,
http://www.klf.uw.edu.pl
- MORE.STUFF correction,
Janusz S. Bień <=