Indeed, you are right. It is going to be released in November 1st. I’m happy to see:
qcow2 support for vmm and vmd.
Go 1.11
Lua 5.3.5
Rust 1.29.1
It always amazes me how such a small team can keep up with changes, and manage to maintain the most consistent and coherent Unix system still in development.
Can someone explain to me why OpenBSD still packages Emacs 21.4? I accidentally installed it once just before I lost my Internet connection and it was quite an experience – yet I don’t understand why anyone would insist on using it, let alone have it as an alternative to 26.1.
As @phaer implied, I also don’t think the license is the case. OpenBSD developers avoid GPLv3 on the base system, as far as I know Emacs is part of the collection for packages ports.
it is not a release actually, it’s just a work-in-progress description of 6.4
Indeed, you are right. It is going to be released in November 1st. I’m happy to see:
It always amazes me how such a small team can keep up with changes, and manage to maintain the most consistent and coherent Unix system still in development.
ah .. that’s probably why the upgrade link doesn’t work yet.
Well, now it is a release see this e-mail to the tech@ list and this tweet, but the link can’t be resubmitted yet.
Can someone explain to me why OpenBSD still packages Emacs 21.4? I accidentally installed it once just before I lost my Internet connection and it was quite an experience – yet I don’t understand why anyone would insist on using it, let alone have it as an alternative to 26.1.
Probably for the same reason they still ship an old GCC: licensing. They reject all GPLv3 software.
But they do ship Emacs 26.1. as well?
Emacs on my OpenBSD system is 26.1, installed from ports.
As @phaer implied, I also don’t think the license is the case. OpenBSD developers avoid GPLv3 on the base system, as far as I know Emacs is part of the collection for packages ports.
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I was also curious about it, as an Emacs user myself I don’t know what’s the benefit behind 21.4.