CVS update by unwelcome-guest . ...

[email protected] Mon, 09 May 2011 11:01:24 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.cvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
  User: unwelcome-guest
  Date: 11/05/09 11:01:24

  Modified:    .        hgaccess.content ChangeLog
Log:
hgaccess.content: Point to 'xemacs' repo by preference.  Also:
	Remove claims that anything is new, nothing here is, any more.
	Remove silly ChangeLog stuff at the end, nobody cares.

Revision  Changes    Path
1.8                  XEmacs/xemacsweb/Develop/hgaccess.content

Index: hgaccess.content
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/xemacs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Develop/hgaccess.content,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -p -r1.7 -r1.8
--- hgaccess.content	22 Dec 2009 13:10:12 -0000	1.7
+++ hgaccess.content	9 May 2011 11:01:12 -0000	1.8
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Stephen J. Turnbull &lt;[email protected]
     <p><strong>Please note:</strong> This page was hacked up quickly
       by copying and editing the corresponding page for CVS.  If you
       spot any CVS-isms or other statements that are not correct for
-      the new repository, please report it as a bug to the
+      the Mercurial repository, please report it as a bug to the
       <a href="mailto:[email protected]">XEmacs Developers</a>.</p>
 
     <ul>
@@ -68,17 +68,28 @@ Stephen J. Turnbull &lt;[email protected]
     <p>
       To get the official (21.5) development sources, do:</p>
     <pre xml:space="preserve">
-      <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta</strong>
+      <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs</strong>
     </pre>
     <p>
-      To get the bleeding edge patches that are still under review (and
-      in some cases may already have been vetoed or be known to cause
-      crashes and other showstoppers) do:</p>
+      This may include a few bleeding edge patches that are still under
+      review (and in some cases may already have been vetoed or be known
+      to cause crashes and other showstoppers).  However as of XEmacs
+      21.5.31 (the first GPLv3+ release, 2011-04-29) the code base is
+      reasonably stable.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If you have problems, you can try the 'xemacs-beta' branch with
     <pre xml:space="preserve">
-      <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs</strong>
+      <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta</strong>
     </pre>
     <p>
-      instead.  The XEmacs lisp packages are now unbundled, and are
+      instead, but it frequently lags the mainline by several days
+      (that's what it is for!) or even weeks.  If you consistently
+      experience build problems with the mainline, please let us know
+      on the xemacs-beta mailing list, and we'll consider stepping up
+      the frequency of updates for this branch.</p>
+    <p>
+      The XEmacs Lisp packages are now unbundled, and are
       available from the <a href="cvsaccess.html">CVS repository</a>.
       Older versions of XEmacs, including the currently stable version
       (21.4) may also be checked out from <a href="cvsaccess.html">CVS
@@ -174,7 +185,7 @@ Stephen J. Turnbull &lt;[email protected]
       clone the repository.</p>
 
     <pre xml:space="preserve">
-chibi$ <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta xemacs-21.5</strong>
+chibi$ <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs xemacs-21.5</strong>
 <i>(churn, churn, churn)</i>
     </pre>
 
@@ -369,7 +380,8 @@ chibi$ <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian
 	Finally, the most conservative approach is to checkout only
 	the official releases.  These are identical to the tarballs
 	distributed by <code>xemacs.org</code>, and are identified in
-	the <code>xemacs-beta</code> repository by tags of the form
+	both the <code>xemacs</code> and <code>xemacs-beta</code>
+        repositories by tags of the form
 	<i>rX-Y-Z</i>, corresponding to the version number X.Y.Z (or
 	X.Y-bZ).  X is the major version, Y the minor version, and Z
 	the micro version or patchlevel.</li>
@@ -380,15 +392,15 @@ chibi$ <strong>hg clone http://hg.debian
       hash is allowed.  To checkout a particular revision use the
       <code>checkout</code> command with the <strong>-r
       &lt;TAG&gt;</strong> option to. Therefore, to update to 21.5
-      beta 16 (but no further), you'd type:</p>
+      beta 30 (but no further), you'd type:</p>
 
     <pre xml:space="preserve">
-chibi$ <strong>hg checkout -r r21-5-16</strong>
+chibi$ <strong>hg checkout -r r21-5-30</strong>
     </pre>
 
     <p>
       The most recent patchlevel or beta release is identified by the
-      tag <i>rX-Y-latest-beta</i>.</p>
+      tag <code>rX-Y-latest-beta</code>.</p>
 
     <p>
       For more info, check the Mercurial documentation:</p>
@@ -402,11 +414,11 @@ chibi$ <strong>hg checkout -r r21-5-16</
 
     <hr />
 
-    <h3><a name="packages">New Package system</a></h3>
+    <h3><a name="packages">Package system</a></h3>
 
     <p>
       For those of you wishing to work with XEmacs 21, you should
-      probably know about our new packaging system. All the details are
+      probably know about our packaging system. All the details are
       available <a href="packages.html">here</a>, and there is also an
       <a href="cvsaccess.html#packages">introduction to the packages
 	CVS repository</a>.</p>
@@ -548,20 +560,6 @@ Host hg.debian.org
       </li>
     </ol>
 
-    <hr />
-    <h3><a name="recent"></a>News and changes</h3>
-
-    <h4>2008-05-19 Changes by Stephen:</h4>
-
-    <p>Change incorrect reference to CVS to Mercurial.  Add link to
-      cvsaccess.html#committers.</p>
-
-    <h4>2008-02-01 Changes by Stephen:</h4>
-
-    <p>
-      Steal the contents of cvsaccess.html and modify them for
-      Mercurial.</p>
-
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1.125                XEmacs/xemacsweb/Develop/ChangeLog

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/xemacs/XEmacs/xemacsweb/Develop/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.124
retrieving revision 1.125
diff -u -p -r1.124 -r1.125
--- ChangeLog	13 Feb 2011 21:07:11 -0000	1.124
+++ ChangeLog	9 May 2011 11:01:14 -0000	1.125
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
+2011-05-09  Stephen J. Turnbull  <[email protected]>
+
+	* hgaccess.content: Point to 'xemacs' repo by preference.  Also:
+	Remove claims that anything is new, nothing here is, any more.
+	Remove silly ChangeLog stuff at the end, nobody cares.
+
 2011-02-13  Adrian Aichner  <[email protected]>
 
-	* index.content: Update smoketest URL
+	* index.content: Update smoketest URL.
 
 2009-12-22  Adrian Aichner  <[email protected]>