Bugs closed in this release: 183 184
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- Packaging Infrastructure (PUI) -- Youngs.<br /><br />
+ Packaging Infrastructure (PUI) -- Youngs.<br />
The big change here is that SXEmacs now uses FFI and libcurl to
download packages whenever possible. EFS can still be used for FTP
download sites but at present we only have a single HTTPS site
available. This means that, for the time being, FFI and libcurl are
mandatory requirements for using PUI for remote package installs. I
-see that as a feature, not a bug. ;-)<br /><br />
+see that as a feature, not a bug. ;-)<br />
-The old "Pre-Release" packages have been removed.<br /><br />
+The old "Pre-Release" packages have been removed.<br />
-The index file has been renamed to "package-index"
+The index file has been renamed to "package-index"<br />
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- FFI -- Youngs.<br /><br />
+ FFI -- Youngs.<br />
ffi-curl.el was extended and improved so that it could be used as a
transport backend for PUI. As a result, the following forms are valid
ffi-wand.el no longer supports PDF. This was because certain versions
of libWand would cause crashes on PDF files, and the versions that
-didn't the performance and user experience was flakey at best.
+didn't the performance and user experience was flakey at best.<br />
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- Build Chain -- Youngs<br /><br />
+ Build Chain -- Youngs<br />
Better, more reliable and robust libffi detection<br />
config.{guess,sub} updated<br />
Use a distro-agnostic way of detecting glibc version<br />
-Clean up all warnings from the autogen.sh script
+Clean up all warnings from the autogen.sh script<br />
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- Internals / elisp -- Youngs, Ferreira<br /><br />
+ Internals / elisp -- Youngs, Ferreira<br />
Use the system malloc in all cases instead of the old, crusty,
in-house malloc we had.<br /><br />