Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BR> On Saturday 17 March 2001 13:07, mike polniak wrote: MP> I am using Gnus5.8.8 and emacs 20.7 and would like to try Gnus MP> with xemacs. If i just apt-get install xemacs from stable will it MP> work with my current version of Gnus (unstable). Are there any MP> problems using the same version of Gnus with emacs and xemacs? BR> BR> I'm pretty sure that won't work. As best I remember, gnus byte BR> compiles differently in emacs and xemacs so the two versions are not BR> compatible.
Yes, but Debian makes an effort to make elisp add-on packages work correctly with multiple Emacsen. My guess is that, if you're using a Debian package of Gnus (even from unstable), it should work with any Emacs in stable, unstable, or testing. BR> The xemacs package at debian comes with an older version BR> of gnus, (Though if things work correctly the external Gnus package should override this.) BR> but it's a piece of cake to download a tarball from gnus.org and BR> roll your own. There is always a stable release version called BR> gnus.tar.gz and a development version called something like BR> ognus.tar.gz or pgnus.tar.gz. They're working backwards through BR> the alphabet so ognus is newer than pgnus. Kind of like debian BR> stable and unstable, the stable version is usually quite solid BR> while the development version may be broken in some fashion on any BR> given day. The Gnus versioning scheme: -- Versions with an odd minor number (5.7, 5.9) are "stable" and can generally only be found distributed with an Emacs (possibly even only with FSF Emacs). -- Versions with an even minor number (5.8.8) are "beta" versions, but late revisions tend to work fairly well. I'd recommend 5.8.8 for most Gnus users. -- Named versions are "alpha" versions. Once upon a time there were frequent releases of these, but these days everything's in CVS. Pterodactyl Gnus was before Gnus 5.8, and Oort Gnus is the current release. As noted previously, alpha release names are in strictly decreasing alphabetical order by first letter of name. As I said before, I'd recommend Gnus 5.8.8 for most people who use Gnus, and in particular for everyone who isn't tracking the CVS Gnus. Conveniently, the Gnus package in Debian unstable is for Gnus 5.8.8, so you're set there. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
