Hello,
I'd like to upgrade the JDE 2.1.4 that ships with XEmacs to the latest
(2.1.6 beta - but I can't get beanshell working - "M-x bsh" prints
"Starting the Beanshell, please wait......" and then hangs - I never see a
command prompt. I've read that XEmacs/NT is not fully supported yet - is
there a schedule to fix this? I may simply not have installed JDE correctly
for XEmacs,
The development team here are heartily sick of JBuilder 2 C/S, and are
experimenting with VisualAge -- and NTEmacs is going to be just too huge a
culture shock, I think. XEmacs can be made fairly Windows-like in
behaviour, so this might be quite acceptable to them -- if I can get the
latest version of JDE working with it. If it's completely unfeasible, maybe
I'll have to use NTEmacs instead?
The last message I read on this from Paul Kinnucan (2 July) read
"...Anyway, I've tried the same XEmacs beta and it hangs too often to be usable
in my opinion. Thus, I'm not inclined at this point to invest a lot of time
trying to investigate JDE compatibility problems. ..."
Is /anyone/ going to be trying to fix this? Do I have any chance of fixing
it, being a Lisp/Emacs newbie? Stepping through beanshell.el in the Lisp
debugger shows me that it's expecting bsh.jar in
C:\Program Files\XEmacs\lib\xemacs\xemacs-packages\etc\jde\java\lib
which is exactly where it is.
FYI: I'm using XEmacs 21.0b67 on NT4 SP4. XEmacs seems to be otherwise
excellent, though with some remaining peculiarities.
I primarily need XEmacs for Java work, so I'll use whichever XEmacs version
is most appropriate for JDE. I can rebuild from sources if required.
Thanks,
Regards,
Thomas.
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Thomas Nichols, Worcester, UK
