[h-e-w] Re: gnuserv maintenance

[Jason Rumney]

> I use cvs head emacs on a w2k machine, and I compile it with vc6.
> I don't even see gnuclient/gnuserv/emacsclient/emacsserv in my bin
> directory.
>  
gnuclient/gnuserv is not and has never been part of Emacs distribution. 
It is a seperate add-on, which used to fill in some missing features 
from emacsclient, but these days is only really useful for Windows users.

The port of emacsclient to Windows, although it has been attempted but 
never finished a number of times in the past, has been under discussion 
on emacs-devel for the last 2 days, so it is not yet available on 
Windows. This time the person doing the porting will be someone who has 
experience with porting gnuclient/gnuserv, so hopefully he will finish 
the job. If not, it looks like we have someone else (Matthew who started 
this thread) who might be willing to step in and take over, so I have 
confidence that emacsclient will be ported at last.

emacsserver is now obsolete. The server portion of emacsclient now runs 
directly in Lisp.

I hope that clarifies things for you.