I packaged 2.1.4. If 2.1.6 is out I'll try and fix it for XEmacs 21.1.3.
andy
At 03:50 PM 7/13/99 +0100, Thomas Nichols wrote:
>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.
>
>----
>Thomas Nichols, Worcester, UK
>
>
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd
