[Emacspeak] Re: Emacspeak head erroring out when running `make emacspeak'

[Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,
Thanks a lot, that all makes sense. I’ll switch to Emacs 29 then.
Thanks!

> On 2 Jun 2023, at 00:57, Tim Cross via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I can confirm this with emacs 28.x
> 
> However, everything builds fine with current Emacs 29 branch.
> 
> I know that Emacs 29 has introduced some changes wrt defining key
> bindings and I know that Raman likes to develop using the current
> development version of emacs i.e. what will be the next release.
> 
> So, my guess would be that the current breakage is due to Raman
> updating/experimenting with the new key binding methods and that means
> the current HEAD of the git repository is temporarily specific to emacs
> 29.
> 
> Normal process would be that Raman will try out the new features and see
> how they can benefit Emacspeak. If they are bveneficial, he will
> update to incorporate the new feature and then, where necessary, add
> code to maintain backwards compatibility with the current Emacs release
> i.e. currently Emacs 28.3.
> 
> At this point, you have three options
> 
> 1. Update to Emacs 29.0.91. Although not yet released, it is very
> stable. I've been running it for months (I don't use native compilation
> though).
> 
> 2. Use git to revert back to whatever revision you were running before
> attempting the update and wait for things to develop.
> 
> 3. Downgrade to the last stable release. If your not going to run the
> current development version of Emacs, I always think this is the best
> and most reliable approach. The latest HEAD of the Emacspeak repository
> is really targeted at the current development version of Emacs. If you
> want to run from git HEAD, then you probably should also run emacs
> devel. (Note that the Emacs git repo has a specific Emacs-29 branch
> which will become the next Emacs release. The Emacs git HEAD is actually
> for Emacs 30, which is a long way from release and the most unstable of
> all.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> Parham Doustdar via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I just updated to the latest Emacspeak, and I’m getting an error on keycap-unset in
>> emacspeak-eww.el on line 598. Here is my Emacs version:
>> GNU Emacs 28.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin22.2.0, Carbon Version 169 AppKit 2299.3) of 2023-01-03
>> I have looked at Emacs info and I don’t find this function. I’ve also searched in Emacs
>> news just to see if it has been deprecated, but can’t find much. What am I missing?
>> Thanks,
>> Parham
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