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--- a/lisp/about.el Mon Aug 13 11:01:58 2007 +0200 +++ b/lisp/about.el Mon Aug 13 11:03:08 2007 +0200 @@ -50,46 +50,44 @@ ;; People in this list have their individual links from the main page, ;; or from the `Legion' page. If they have an image, it should be -;; named after the CAR of the list element (baw -> baw.png). +;; named after the CAR of the list element (baw -> baw.xpm). ;; ;; If you add to this list, you'll want to update ;; `about-maintainer-info' (and maybe `about-hackers'. (defvar xemacs-hackers '((ajc "Andrew Cosgriff" "ajc@bing.wattle.id.au") - (aj "Andreas Jaeger" "aj@suse.de") (baw "Barry Warsaw" "bwarsaw@python.org") (bw "Bob Weiner" "weiner@altrasoft.com") - (chr "Christian Nybø" "chr@mediascience.no") (cthomp "Chuck Thompson" "cthomp@xemacs.org") (dmoore "David Moore" "dmoore@ucsd.edu") (dkindred "Darrell Kindred" "dkindred@cmu.edu") - (dv "Didier Verna" "didier@xemacs.org") + (dv "Didier Verna" "verna@inf.enst.fr") (hniksic "Hrvoje Niksic" "hniksic@srce.hr") (jareth "Jareth Hein" "jareth@camelot.co.jp") - (jason "Jason Mastaler" "jason@xemacs.org") + (jason "Jason Mastaler" "jason@mastaler.com") (jens "Jens Lautenbacher" "jens@lemcbed.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de") (jmiller "Jeff Miller" "jmiller@smart.net") (juhp "Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen" "petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp") (jwz "Jamie Zawinski" "jwz@netscape.com") - (kazz "IENAGA Kazuyuki" "ienaga@xemacs.org") + (kazz "IENAGA Kazuyuki" "ienaga@jsys.co.jp") (kyle "Kyle Jones" "kyle_jones@wonderworks.com") (larsi "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen" "larsi@gnus.org") (marcpa "Marc Paquette" "marcpa@CAM.ORG") (mcook "Michael R. Cook" "mcook@cognex.com") - (mly "Richard Mlynarik" "Mly@POBox.COM") + (mly "Richard Mlynarik" "mly@adoc.xerox.com") (morioka "MORIOKA Tomohiko" "morioka@jaist.ac.jp") (martin "Martin Buchholz" "martin@xemacs.org") (ograf "Oliver Graf" "ograf@fga.de") (pez "Peter Pezaris" "pez@dwwc.com") - (piper "Andy Piper" "andy@xemacs.org") + (piper "Andy Piper" "andyp@parallax.co.uk") (rickc "Rick Campbell" "rickc@lehman.com") (rossini "Anthony Rossini" "rossini@stat.sc.edu") - (vin "Vin Shelton" "acs@xemacs.org") + (vin "Vin Shelton" "acs@acm.org") (sperber "Michael Sperber" "sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de") (slb "SL Baur" "steve@xemacs.org") (stig "Jonathan Stigelman" "stig@hackvan.com") (stigb "Stig Bjorlykke" "stigb@tihlde.hist.no") - (thiessel "Marcus Thiessel" "marcus_thiessel@hp.com") + (thiessel "Marcus Thiessel" "thiessel@rhrk.uni-kl.de") (vladimir "Vladimir Ivanovic" "vladimir@mri.com") (wing "Ben Wing" "ben@xemacs.org") (wmperry "William Perry" "wmperry@aventail.com")) @@ -101,14 +99,10 @@ (defvar about-url-alist '((ajc . "http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ajc/") (altrasoft . "http://www.altrasoft.com/") - (ben . "http://www.666.com/ben/") - (ben-xemacs . "http://www.666.com/xemacs/") (baw . "http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/") (cc-mode . "http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/") - (chr . "http://www.xemacs.org/faq/") (dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html") (dmoore . "http://oj.egbt.org/dmoore/") - (dv . "http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/") (jason . "http://www.mastaler.com/") (juhp . "http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~petersen/") (jwz . "http://people.netscape.com/jwz/") @@ -118,7 +112,7 @@ (marcpa . "http://www.positron911.com/products/power.htm") (ograf . "http://www.fga.de/~ograf/") (pez . "http://www.dwwc.com/") - (piper . "http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/") + (piper . "http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp") (vin . "http://www.upa.org/") (stigb . "http://www.tihlde.hist.no/~stigb/") (wget . "ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/") @@ -215,7 +209,7 @@ (let* ((emacs-short-version (format "%d.%d" emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version)) - (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; May 1999" + (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; Apr 1998" emacs-short-version))) (widget-insert (about-center emacs-about-version)) (widget-create 'link :help-echo "The latest NEWS of XEmacs" @@ -285,7 +279,7 @@ :value who) (widget-insert (format " <%s>\n" address))))) ;; Setup persons responsible for this release. - (mapc 'setup-person '(vin slb hniksic kyle martin piper)) + (mapc 'setup-person '(slb hniksic kyle martin)) (widget-insert "\n\t* ") (widget-create 'link :help-echo "A legion of XEmacs hackers" :action 'about-hackers @@ -535,22 +529,45 @@ (if (memq (device-class) '(color grayscale)) "" "m") - ".png") + ".xpm") (locate-data-directory "photos"))) (data nil)) + (unless (file-exists-p file) + ;; Maybe the file is compressed? + (setq file (concat file ".Z")) + (if (file-exists-p file) + ;; Decompress it. + (condition-case nil + (let ((buffer (get-buffer-create " *image*"))) + (unwind-protect + (save-excursion + (message "Uncompressing image...") + (set-buffer buffer) + (erase-buffer) + (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary) + (coding-system-for-write 'binary)) + (insert-file-contents-literally file) + (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) + "zcat" t t nil) + (setq data + (buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max)))) + (message "Uncompressing image... done")) + (kill-buffer buffer))) + (error (setq data 'error))) + (setq file nil))) (setq glyph (cond ((stringp data) (make-glyph - (if (featurep 'png) - `([png :data ,data] + (if (featurep 'xpm) + `([xpm :data ,data] [string :data "[Image]"]) `([string :data "[Image]"])))) ((eq data 'error) (make-glyph [string :data "[Error]"])) (file (make-glyph - (if (featurep 'png) - `([png :file ,file] + (if (featurep 'xpm) + `([xpm :file ,file] [string :data "[Image]"]) `([string :data "[Image]"])))) (t @@ -566,8 +583,13 @@ (ecase (car entry) (slb (widget-insert "\ -Peaches Baur, 1986-1999. -Rest in peace") +I took over the maintenance of XEmacs in November of 1996 (it +seemed like a good idea at the time ...). In real life I am a +network administrator and Unix systems programmer for Calag.com, +Inc. a small, but growing ISP in California. + +My main hobby while not maintaining XEmacs or working is ... +you have got to be kidding ...") (widget-insert ".\n")) (martin (widget-insert "\ @@ -585,21 +607,26 @@ Volunteer.\n")) (hniksic (widget-insert "\ -Hrvoje is a student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and -Computing in Zagreb, Croatia, working part-time at system administration -at SRCE. His hobby is hacking free software, particularly XEmacs and -GNU Wget, the latter being his very own creation. - -His contribution to XEmacs consists of a multitude of hours spent -adding new features and bugs, and fixing old ones. He dreams of -writing a home page.\n")) +Hrvoje is currently a student at the Faculty of Electrical +Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. He works part-time +at SRCE, where he helps run the network machines. In his free time he +is helping develop free software (especially XEmacs, as well as GNU +software) and is writing his own -- he has written a small network +mirroring utility Wget, see ") + (about-url-link 'wget "Download Wget") + (widget-insert ".\n")) (wing (widget-insert "\ -I began my Emacs life in 1992 as the co-founder of the now defunct -Pearl Software. As part of this company, I became the principal -architect of Win-Emacs, an early port of Lucid Emacs to Microsoft -Windows and Windows NT. +I'm not a thug -- I just play one on video. +My roommate says I'm a San Francisco \"Mission Critter\".\n\n" + (about-with-face "Gory stuff follows:" 'italic) + "\n +In 1992 I left a stuffy East-Coast university, set out into the real +world, and ended up a co-founder of Pearl Software. As part of this +company, I became the principal architect of Win-Emacs, a port of +Lucid Emacs to Microsoft Windows and Windows NT (for more info, e-mail +to info@pearlsoft.com). Since April 1993, I've worked on XEmacs as a contractor for various companies, changing hats faster than Ronald Reagan's hair color (oops, @@ -610,19 +637,8 @@ manual), and being a general nuisance ... er, brainstormer for many of the new features of XEmacs. -Alas, life has not been good to me recently. This former San Francisco -\"Mission Critter\" was exiled to \"Stroller Valley\" and, after a brief -stint developing a Java-based VRML toolkit for the now also defunct -Dimension X, I developed insidious hand and neck problems, and I was -forced to quit working. Since then, I have been learning how to interact -with the computer by using foot pedals and by dictating text to other -people. Recently I completed Architecting XEmacs, a web site about the -future of XEmacs.\n\n") - (widget-insert "Architecting XEmacs: ") - (about-url-link 'ben-xemacs "Find the miracles in store for XEmacs") - (widget-insert "\nBen's home page: ") - (about-url-link 'ben "Visit Ben's page") - (widget-insert "\n")) +Recently I took a job at Dimension X, where I'm working on a +Java-based toolkit for developing VRML applications.\n")) (cthomp (widget-insert "\ Chuck, through being in the wrong place at the right time, has gotten @@ -765,7 +781,7 @@ system written in Modula3:\n") (about-url-link 'marcpa "Visit POWER 911") (widget-insert "\ -\n\nPreviously, I worked at Softimage Inc., now a Microsoft company +Previously, I worked at Softimage Inc., now a Microsoft company \(eeekkk!), as a UNIX system administrator. This is where I've been converted to NT. @@ -814,12 +830,13 @@ (widget-insert ".\n")) (thiessel (widget-insert "\ -Worked at University of Kaiserslautern where he took part in the -development and design of a CAD framework for analog integrated -circuits with special emphasis on distributed software concepts. He -has now joined HP as technical consultant. +On May 1, 1996 he started working at University of Kaiserslautern in +the field of computer aided analog circuit design. His +responsibilities include the development and design of a CAD-Tool for +analog integrated circuits with special emphasis on distributed +software concepts. -For XEmacs he does beta testing and tries to take care of XEmacs +When all the daily hacking is done he tries to take care of XEmacs website at ") (about-url-link 'xemacs "Visit XEmacs web site") (widget-insert ".\n")) @@ -833,10 +850,11 @@ XEmacs will speak Scheme.\n")) (vin (widget-insert "\ -Vin is currently maintaining the 21.1 (stable) version of XEmacs. He does -it 'cause it's fun and he's been using emacs for a long, long time. -Vin also contributed the detached minibuffer code as well as a few minor -enhancements to the menubar options. +Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages in order to bring a more +stable XEmacs. (Actually, he does it 'cause it's fun and he's been +using emacs for a long, long time.) Vin also contributed the detached +minibuffer code as well as a few minor enhancements to the menubar +options. I own and operate my own consulting firm, EtherSoft. Shhh, don't tell anyone, but it's named after an Ultimate team I used to play @@ -902,23 +920,14 @@ (widget-insert ".\n")) (dv (widget-insert "\ -I gratuated at ENST (an engineering school in Paris) and have a Ph.D. -in computer science. I'm currently a teacher at EPITA (another -engineering school, still in Paris) and a researcher at LRDE (EPITA's -research and development laboratory). Our research topics include -generic programming and distributed virtual reality. +I'm currently working (Ph.D.) on the cognitive aspects of +Human-Machine Interaction in Virtual Environments, and especialy on +the possibility of adding (artificial) intelligence between the system +and the operator, in order to detect the intentions of the latter. -Appart from XEmacs, I'm also involved in other free software projects, -including Gnus, BBDB, and the GNU \"autotools\". I also wrote some -LaTeX packages (ugh :-). - -All of this, actually, is only 60% true. Two days per week, I'm also a -semi-professional Jazz guitar player (and singer), which means that it -is not the way I earn my crust, but things may very well reverse in -the future ...\n\n") - (widget-insert "Visit Didier's home page: ") - (about-url-link 'dv "Visit Didier's home page") - (widget-insert "\n")) +Otherwise, I'm, say, 35.82% professional Jazz guitar player, +which means that's not the way I earn my crust, but things may very +well reverse in the future ...\n")) (rossini (widget-insert "\ Author of the first XEmacs FAQ, as well as minor priest in the @@ -969,9 +978,8 @@ (widget-insert ".\n")) (jason (widget-insert "\ -Beta tester, manager of the various XEmacs mailing lists and -binary kit manager. Also, originator and maintainer of the gnus.org -domain. +Beta tester and manager of the various XEmacs mailing lists. +Originator and maintainer of the gnus.org domain. Jason resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he keeps himself busy with studies at the university and consulting work. @@ -989,24 +997,6 @@ Roman history and enjoys making trips to Italy, where he was born, and seeing the sights") (widget-insert ".\n")) - (chr - (widget-insert "\ -Maintainer of the XEmacs FAQ and proud author of `zap-up-to-char'. - -Christian is a student at the Norwegian School of Economics and -Business Administration in Bergen, Norway. He used to work for an -internet startup called New Media Science, doing scripting and -violation of HTML DTD's. After graduation, spring 1999, he'll be -looking for a job involving lisp programming, French and Russian.") - (widget-insert ".\n")) - (aj - (widget-insert "\ -In the XEmacs team I'm responsible for the packages which means mainly -applying patches and packaging the packages. - -I'm a software developer working for the SuSE Labs of the Linux -distributor SuSE. My main task is to improve the GNU C library.") - (widget-insert ".\n")) )) ;; Setup the buffer for a maintainer. @@ -1051,7 +1041,7 @@ (format "<%s>\n%s\n" address shortinfo)))) (defun about-hackers (&rest ignore) - (unless (about-get-buffer "*About Contributors*") + (unless (about-get-buffer "*About Hackers*") (let ((title "Other Contributors to XEmacs")) (widget-insert (about-center title) @@ -1178,16 +1168,14 @@ Carnegie Mellon University, but he's trying hard to kick that habit.\n") (about-show-linked-info 'dv "\ -I joined the development of XEmacs in 1996, and have been one of the -core maintainers since 1998. Although I'm mostly interested in the -GUI, ergonomics, redisplay and autoconf issues, it's probably simpler -to describe what I'm *not* involved in: I've never touched the Lisp -implementation, and I probably never will... +I'm currently working (Ph.D.) on the cognitive aspects of +Human-Machine Interaction in Virtual Environments, and especialy on +the possibility of adding (artificial) intelligence between the system +and the operator, in order to detect the intentions of the latter. -I'm the author of the multicast support, I wrote and maintain some -external Emacs Lisp packages (including mchat) and I'm also -responsible for some of the core Lisp code (including the rectangle -library which I rewrote for both XEmacs and GNU Emacs).\n") +Otherwise, I'm, say, 35.82% professional Jazz guitar player, +which means that's not the way I earn my crust, but things may very +well reverse in the future ...\n") (about-show-linked-info 'marcpa "\ I work for Positron Industries Inc., Public Safety Division.\n") (about-show-linked-info 'pez "\ @@ -1218,11 +1206,6 @@ Originator and maintainer of the gnus.org domain.\n") (about-show-linked-info 'jmiller "\ Beta tester and last hacker of calendar.\n") - (about-show-linked-info 'chr "\ -Maintainer of the XEmacs FAQ and proud author of `zap-up-to-char'.\n") - (about-show-linked-info 'aj "\ -Former `Package Patch Tender', beta tester and GNU libc developer.\n") - (flet ((print-short (name addr &optional shortinfo) (concat (about-with-face name 'italic) (about-tabs name) @@ -1289,7 +1272,7 @@ (print-short "Per Abrahamsen" "abraham@dina.kvl.dk") (print-short "Gary Adams" "gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM") (print-short "Gennady Agranov" "agranov@csa.CS.Technion.Ac.IL") - (print-short "Adrian Aichner" "adrian@xemacs.org") + (print-short "Adrian Aichner" "aichner@ecf.teradyne.com") (print-short "Mark Allender" "allender@vnet.IBM.COM") (print-short "Stephen R. Anderson" "sra@bloch.ling.yale.edu") (print-short "Butch Anton" "butch@zaphod.uchicago.edu") @@ -1366,13 +1349,12 @@ (print-short "Michael Guenther" "michaelg@igor.stuttgart.netsurf.de") (print-short "Dipankar Gupta" "dg@hplb.hpl.hp.com") (print-short "Markus Gutschke" "gutschk@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE") - (print-short "Kai Haberzettl" "khaberz@synnet.de") + (print-short "Kai Haberzettl" "khaberz@privat.circular.de") (print-short "Adam Hammer" "hammer@cs.purdue.edu") (print-short "Magnus Hammerin" "magnush@epact.se") (print-short "ChangGil Han" "cghan@phys401.phys.pusan.ac.kr") (print-short "Derek Harding" "dharding@lssec.bt.co.uk") (print-short "Michael Harnois" "mharnois@sbt.net") - (print-short "Yoshiki Hayashi" "yoshiki@xemacs.org") (print-short "John Haxby" "J.Haxby@isode.com") (print-short "Karl M. Hegbloom" "karlheg@inetarena.com") (print-short "Benedikt Heinen" "beh@icemark.thenet.ch") @@ -1387,6 +1369,7 @@ (print-short "Tudor Hulubei" "tudor@cs.unh.edu") (print-short "Tatsuya Ichikawa" "ichikawa@hv.epson.co.jp") (print-short "Andrew Innes" "andrewi@harlequin.co.uk") + (print-short "Andreas Jaeger" "aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de") (print-short "Markku Jarvinen" "Markku.Jarvinen@simpukka.funet.fi") (print-short "Robin Jeffries" "robin.jeffries@sun.com") (print-short "Philip Johnson" "johnson@uhics.ics.Hawaii.Edu") @@ -1401,16 +1384,15 @@ (print-short "Gregor Kennedy" "gregork@dadd.ti.com") (print-short "Michael Kifer" "kifer@cs.sunysb.edu") (print-short "Yasuhiko Kiuchi" "kiuchi@dsp.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp") - (print-short "Greg Klanderman" "greg.klanderman@alum.mit.edu") + (print-short "Greg Klanderman" "greg@alphatech.com") (print-short "Valdis Kletnieks" "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu") - (print-short "Norbert Koch" "n.koch@delta-ii.de") (print-short "Rob Kooper" "kooper@cc.gatech.edu") (print-short "Peter Skov Knudsen" "knu@dde.dk") (print-short "Jens Krinke" "krinke@ips.cs.tu-bs.de") (print-short "Maximilien Lincourt" "max@toonboom.com") (print-short "Mats Larsson" "Mats.Larsson@uab.ericsson.se") (print-short "Simon Leinen" "simon@instrumatic.ch") - (print-short "Carsten Leonhardt" "leo@arioch.oche.de") + (print-short "Carsten Leonhardt" "leo@arioch.tng.oche.de") (print-short "James LewisMoss" "moss@cs.sc.edu") (print-short "Mats Lidell" "mats.lidell@contactor.se") (print-short "Matt Liggett" "mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu") @@ -1448,6 +1430,7 @@ (print-short "Andy Norman" "ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com") (print-short "Joe Nuspl" "nuspl@sequent.com") (print-short "Kim Nyberg" "kny@tekla.fi") + (print-short "Christian Nybø" "chr@mediascience.no") (print-short "Kevin Oberman" "oberman@es.net") (print-short "David Ofelt" "ofelt@getalife.Stanford.EDU") (print-short "Alexandre Oliva" "oliva@dcc.unicamp.br") @@ -1463,7 +1446,7 @@ (print-short "Frederic Poncin" "fp@info.ucl.ac.be") (print-short "E. Rehmi Post" "rehmi@asylum.sf.ca.us") (print-short "Martin Pottendorfer" "Martin.Pottendorfer@aut.alcatel.at") - (print-short "Colin Rafferty" "colin@xemacs.org") + (print-short "Colin Rafferty" "craffert@ml.com") (print-short "Rick Rankin" "Rick_Rankin-P15254@email.mot.com") (print-short "Paul M Reilly" "pmr@pajato.com") (print-short "Jack Repenning" "jackr@sgi.com") @@ -1486,7 +1469,6 @@ (print-short "Cotton Seed" "cottons@cybercom.net") (print-short "Axel Seibert" "seiberta@informatik.tu-muenchen.de") (print-short "Odd-Magne Sekkingstad" "oddms@ii.uib.no") - (print-short "Gregory Neil Shapiro" "gshapiro@sendmail.org") (print-short "Justin Sheehy" "justin@linus.mitre.org") (print-short "John Shen" "zfs60@cas.org") (print-short "Murata Shuuichirou" "mrt@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp") @@ -1514,7 +1496,7 @@ (print-short "Juan E. Villacis" "jvillaci@cs.indiana.edu") (print-short "Jan Vroonhof" "vroonhof@math.ethz.ch") (print-short "Vladimir Vukicevic" "vladimir@intrepid.com") - (print-short "Charles G. Waldman" "cgw@fnal.gov") + (print-short "Charles G. Waldman" "cgw@pgt.com") (print-short "David Walte" "djw18@cornell.edu") (print-short "Peter Ware" "ware@cis.ohio-state.edu") (print-short "Christoph Wedler" "wedler@fmi.uni-passau.de") @@ -1522,7 +1504,6 @@ (print-short "Peter B. West" "p.west@uq.net.au") (print-short "Rod Whitby" "rwhitby@asc.corp.mot.com") (print-short "Rich Williams" "rdw@hplb.hpl.hp.com") - (print-short "Raymond Wiker" "raymond@orion.no") (print-short "Peter Windle" "peterw@SDL.UG.EDS.COM") (print-short "David C Worenklein" "dcw@gcm.com") (print-short "Takeshi Yamada" "yamada@sylvie.kecl.ntt.jp") @@ -1530,7 +1511,6 @@ (print-short "Jason Yanowitz" "yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu") (print-short "La Monte Yarroll" "piggy@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au") (print-short "Blair Zajac" "blair@olympia.gps.caltech.edu") - (print-short "Volker Zell" "vzell@de.oracle.com") (print-short "Daniel Zivkovic" "daniel@canada.sun.com") (print-short "Karel Zuiderveld" "Karel.Zuiderveld@cv.ruu.nl") "\n"))