Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 26.1 released

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 31 May 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:07:01 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Nicolas Petton <address@hidden>, Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > If there are specific package versions required, then they should be
> > listed in the installation documentation.
>
> That'd be nice to have, but I'm not sure we have the resources to
> provide an accurate list and keep it up to date.  All the other
> projects I've built never provide such info, you have to "discover"
> that by building and getting error messages that tell you what minimal
> version is required.
>
> But if someone wants to arrange such a list (in INSTALL, I think?), it
> would be very welcome.

Developers should be cognizant of the packages they are requiring to 
be used.

It would be very helpful if configure specified what it is 
specifically looking for, and includes what it needs in the error 
message.

It seems that the new emacs silently quit last night while the screen 
was locked.  I may need to retreat to the previous release (25.3).

Something else I notice is that when I open a file which is in a 
Mercurial repository, the /usr/bin/hg program crashes and I get an 
Ubuntu crash report.  The Ubuntu crash report screen does not allow me 
to copy text from it, but the command executed which crashed starts 
with '/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hg log -r . -l1 -template ...'.  This 
does not happen with emacs-25.3.  The crash is due to use of a None 
value.  The version of Mercurial provided by this Ubuntu release is 
2.8.2.

Bob
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