On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 18:26, Ben Straub <b...@straubnet.net> wrote: > On http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl, the "latest" > patched release is dated almost two years ago. Are there plans to cut a > release anytime soon?
Is it that long ago? Time is rushing away sometimes. But, eh, wait. It is nearly one year ago. The latest release was from a checkout 2010-10-09. That is of course also a very long time. However at the moment I have had to give up, I do not have time to build now. The reason is mostly that I have had a very hard time to get some of the essential patches accepted into core Emacs. Because of this it takes me quite a long time to merge my patches into a new checkout. I have told this very many times on Emacs devel list, but unfortunately it is still the same. Maybe I will be able to merge again some day, but I am not sure any more. However if someone wants to help I can upload at least the latest version I have built from to Launchpad. Most of the code is already there, but it is not fully up to date with what I myself is using now. I have been hesitating to tell this since it may be used as a fork instead as an incubator for the patches. Making a fork creates a lot of trouble. Not accepting the patches also creates a lot of trouble, of course. I would be very glad if someone tried to make a new build and started working on getting the essential parts of the patches into Emacs again. But it might be a tough job. Without those patches Emacs would currently be rather useless for me.
