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Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: New pretest tarball 22.0.93
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:36:53 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux)

>>> Emacs 21.1 was a major rewrite of the display engine, that's one
>>> reason why it took so long to release.
>> 
>> I know, I wasn't a developer back then but I pretested each and every
>> one of these seventeen tarballs (painstakingly downloading them with a
>> 56K modem because I had no working xdelta) :)

> I don't have a working xdelta now, on Mac OS X (10.4.8).

Which is why I always favored patches over xdelta (I used to provide
patches for pretests, a long time ago).  Also gzipped patches tend to
be somewhat shorter.


        Stefan




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