At 02:09 PM 7/14/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I packaged 2.1.4. If 2.1.6 is out I'll try and fix it for XEmacs 21.1.3.
>
Beta 4 of 2.1.6 is on the JDE website. It seems pretty stable.
I use it myself and have no problems and I've had no complaints from
others so I'd advise including it with XEmacs 21.1.3.
Where can I get a binary of the latest NT version of XEmacs?
- Paul
>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
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