X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/2511170598c70994042e68108481a8f5792e5f96..eaebd3de48120a737ac70a6ae4269290f983675c:/admin/FOR-RELEASE diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index b794006a49..0e5588180b 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -1,95 +1,99 @@ Tasks needed before the next release. -* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE +* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS. -** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; -make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. +These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the +attention of Windows users to fixing them. -** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. +** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. + (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) -** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. +* BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT -Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib). +** undefined reference getopt_long +Report by Daniel C. Bastos on bug-gnu-emacs +from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as +of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html -LANG Translator Status -cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now. -de Sven Joachim Done -fr Eric Jacoboni Done -pl Włodek Bzyl Done -pt-br Rodrigo Real Done -ru Alex Ott Done -sk Miroslav Vaško No response +** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches) +Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be +supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to +alloc.c, or whether configure should abort. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html -Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08. +* BUGS -* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS. +** Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is +on a vfat or ntfs filesystem +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00033.html -These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the -attention of Windows users to fixing them. +** dired cannot access file names with a quote +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00024.html -** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind -Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related -to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. +* Bugs and feature requests for 22.3 or later -** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. - (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) +** python.el changes by Dave Love? -* BUGS +** etags support for php5 +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00131.html + +** Etags completion problem for local tags table +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00103.html + +** M-x grep significantly slower in emacs 22 (compared to emacs 21) +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00155.html + +** Emacs CVS: find-file.el - Line up all columns in output +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00039.html +Do we need papers for Jari Aalto? [no, we have them already] + +** emacs crashs when remote x-windows closes after make-frame-on-display +even when other frame was closed due to assertion in xcd_xlib.c +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00082.html + +** outline does not change heading line endings +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00175.html +If this feature might be easy to implement and safe, we can add it to +Emacs 22 at some point. + +** mouse-2 and calc-yank +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00048.html + +** query-replace / longlines / C-o +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00073.html + +** don't require path hints for *shell* +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00046.html -** python.el legal problem? -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2007-04/msg00459.html +** Two display bugs involving interactions between after-string and +display properties of adjacent overlays +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00119.html -** rcyeske@gmail.com, April 22: Failure to build on OpenBSD macppc. -OpenBSD compilation works on i386. -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00932.html +** overlay face property not used for after-string property +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00124.html -** Spurious redisplay bug not fixed. -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00443.html -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00732.html +** Should dired-do-search bind tags-loop-revert-buffers automatically? +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00059.html -** michael.ewe@arcor.de, Apr 24: 22.0.98 not starting on Solaris 10/I386 -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg01113.html +** Backport find-function-search-for-symbol change to try `.emacs' +Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00147.html -** Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, May 2: table cell menu does not appear at the menubar - Bug is intermittent. +** Auto-Save bug when file/directory no longer exists +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-11/msg00058.html +Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2. +2008-02-23 change to fileio.c by cyd. -** david.reitter@gmail.com, May 4: Euro sign bound, Pound sign not bound. (Bug?) +** Bug in url-get-authentication +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00058.html +Fix is already in the trunk. +2008-01-29 change to url-auth.el by John Wiegley. * DOCUMENTATION -** Check the Emacs Tutorial. - -The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a -period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective -language. This should be followed by "See end for copying -conditions", likewise in the respective language. - -After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the -names of the people who have checked it. - -SECTION READERS ----------------------------------- -etc/TUTORIAL rms -etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev -etc/TUTORIAL.cn -etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík -etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG -etc/TUTORIAL.eo -etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo -etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn -etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn -etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa -etc/TUTORIAL.ko -etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra -etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk -etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo -etc/TUTORIAL.ro -etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott -etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík -etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN -etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell -etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich -etc/TUTORIAL.zh +** Shouldn't directory-abbrev-alist be in Emacs manual? +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00017.html Local variables: