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The Future Of pcl-cvs
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Although I may be giving you the impression that pcl-cvs is barely
maintained and a risky investment, the instability appears to be
temporary.  Stefan Monnier is a responsive maintainer (I contacted him
several times during the writing of this chapter, and he always answered
right away; he is already making headway on some of the bugs in Version
2.9.6).  Very likely by the time this is published, you will be able to
download Version 2.9.7 or later with confidence.

In fact, I just now got an encouraging email on this topic from Greg
Woods, a former maintainer of pcl-cvs, reprinted here with his
permission:

     From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
     Subject: Re: pcl-cvs maintenance status, stability of recent "release"s?
     To: kfogel@red-bean.com
     Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 18:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
     
     [...]
     I've been using Stefan's releases for some time now, and indeed I have
     abandoned my own branch of it.
     
     He's done a lot of really good work on PCL-CVS and except for a few odd
     quirks in the 2.9.6 version I'm using daily now it is quite usable (and
     is approximately infinitely more usable with modern CVS than the one
     that was in the CVS distribution! ;-).
     
     I've added a pcl-cvs.README file to my FTP site to point out that the
     files there are indeed quite old (at least in Internet time! ;-) and to
     give a pointer to Stefan's FTP site too.
     
     [...]

In a later email, Greg said that the FSF is considering including
pcl-cvs in their next release of Emacs (20.5), which would render most
of the preceding installation advice obsolete.  Sigh.  It's hard to keep
up with free software, sometimes.