APEL 10.4 is released

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

APEL 10.4 is released.

Get it from:

  ftp://ftp.jpl.org/pub/elisp/apel/apel-10.4.tar.gz

This site is provisional, remember that the primary distribution
place for APEL is:

  ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/apel/

APEL stands for A Portable Emacs Library.  This package includes:

* emulation modules to share Emacs Lisp programs by various Emacsen
* basic functions to write portable Emacs Lisp programs
* modules to provide coding-system and MIME charset related features
* utilities to write portable CCL programs
* etc...

XEmacs users should be careful of the following things:

* There are differences between the XEmacs APEL package and this.
  Since some programs (e.g. Wanderlust, T-gnus and emacs-w3m) presume
  that *this* version of APEL is used, you should replace the XEmacs
  APEL package with it if you use those such programs.  For example:

  % rm -fr /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/apel
  % cd apel-10.4
  % make install-package XEMACS=xemacs-21.4.10\
    PACKAGEDIR=/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages

  It does not mean the XEmacs APEL package is inferior, those versions
  are simply different.

* In principle, APEL built by XEmacs with the Mule feature can be used
  by only XEmacs with Mule.  Similarly, APEL built by non-Mule XEmacs
  can be used by only XEmacs without the Mule feature in principle.
  This issue is not applied to the XEmacs APEL package.

See the ChangeLog file for the changes since last release.

P.S.
Though both the lists <apel-en ＠ m17n.org> and <apel-ja ＠ m17n.org> are
closed for non-subscribed posters, comments, suggestions, and bug
fixes are welcome.  To subscribe those lists, see the README file.
-- 
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka ＠ jpl.org>