Uday Reddy writes: > The VM release 8.2.0a is available for download from the Launchpad > web site. > > https://launchpad.net/vm > > This will become the public 8.2.0 release sometime in mid-summer. > So, I encourage all users to download it and test it.
I do like to keep abreast of the development of VM, so I just spent two hours unsuccessfully trying to install and use this release. I'll try and recount the problems I encountered. First, I am running emacs 23.3.1 on an X86-64 system with Slackware 13.0.0.0.0 Linux version 2.6.29.6 (root@midas64) (gcc version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #2 SMP Mon Aug 17 11:58:18 CDT 2009 I downloaded vm-8.2.0a.tgz and untarred it without issue, but the directory vm-8.2.0a and everything in it were owned by 1004:513. After fixing that I discovered that the configure file could not be executed. I solved that by using "sh ~/configure". My setup is very plain so that appeared to work as did "make ; make install". But attempting to use the new version of VM I immediately found that it could not use qp-decode - the error message being that qp-decode could not be found. In a shell I determined that using the rejected path given in the error message I could run qp-decode. After a small amount of time trying to locate the problem I simply moved all the relevant programs to /usr/local/bin, changed and recompiled .vm and that problem went away. But now with any multipart mime program with a plain text part (us-ascii or utf-8) the plain text would simply not be displayed. Spending some time reading the NEWS and inspecting my .vm was no productive so I simply reverted to version 8.1.0 and all is again well. I'll try again at the next release. Thank you for all of your work on maintaining and upgrading VM. -- Bob
