From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ben Wing" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: RE: Old versions of GNU Emacs Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:11:54 -0600 Message-ID: <004801c4cbab$8de68f00$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100589035 2542 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 07:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 08:10:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTxTq-0005Si-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:10:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTxca-0008Tp-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTxcI-0008Gp-UL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTxcF-0008DO-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTxcF-0008DJ-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.163.170.81] (helo=smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTxTT-0002tf-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO NEEEEEEE) (benwing@sbcglobal.net@67.67.219.85 with login) by smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2004 07:09:58 -0000 Original-To: "'Stefan'" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29911 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:16975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29911 How do I get access to the repository? Is there read-only access anonymously? [presumably there's a web site?] > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:57 PM > To: Ben Wing > Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org; emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Old versions of GNU Emacs > > > > So far I've located 18.55, 18.59, 19.22, 19.28 and onward, > and patches > > to run forward from 19.7 to 19.22 and 19.23 to 19.28. Note the gap > > between 19.22 and 19.23 and the oddity of finding exactly > the *LAST* > > version in the patch series, when running patches backwards is not > > easy due to added and deleted files. > > I seem to remember there was at least one case where no patch > was distributed because it was just too large. Could have > been between 19.22 and 19.23. > > For those revs that you just can't recover, you may want to > look at the CVS repository if you want to try and re-generate > the tar file. I've done something similar a few times to > generate missing tags such as EMACS_19_34. > > > Stefan >