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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.0 announcement  (XEmacs 20.0 vs XEmacs 19.15)
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 05 Feb 1997 04:21:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 04 Feb 1997 10:52:42 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> things faster, but it's taking time.  Currently, 19.15 and 20.0
> compiled with MULE (20.0-latin-1) are somewhat faster than 19.14.

Shouldn't this be `without MULE'?  And I agree with Markus, the
following paragraphs (even verbatim!) should definitely take a
prominent part in the announcement.

> With patches I integrated this morning from Joe Nuspl, my main
> objection to 19.15 last November has been cancelled, as 19.15 now has
> all the maintenance work done on the 20.0 source tree over the
> summer. (Thanks Joe!)
> 
> In short, if you don't need the internationalization features and
> you're not interested in participating in the upgrade path of XEmacs
> until the new code stabilizes you should use 19.15.  If you like the
> idea of running the latest code, but don't want to take the
> performance hit of MULE, don't need to have non-Latin-1 language
> support, and are willing to put up with the occasional incompatibility
> caused by the change to the character type, then you should use
> XEmacs-v20-latin-1.  If you wish the whole `v20 experience' as Kyle
> Jones put it :-), then you should use XEmacs-v20-MULE.
> 
> Warning:  The MULE features are *highly* addictive (IMHO).

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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