From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating release version to 22.1 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:21:05 +0100 Message-ID: <006801c50eb3$0fa5dbf0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <87vf92sqby.fsf@marant.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107960244 31179 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2005 14:44:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 14:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 15:44:03 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyt4P-00036I-6N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:43:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CytIx-00028C-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CytHz-0001to-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CytHs-0001qL-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CytHq-0001jB-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.115] (helo=av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cysm3-0002Ja-Qi; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 246E037E60; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:24:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av1-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D9A37E55; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:24:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p101.telia.com [195.252.57.101]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A1CA37E46; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:24:57 +0100 (CET) Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33139 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33139 Maybe the effort of changing the version number should be saved to the CVS as some kind of script? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Bader" The problems caused by the current "mess" (21.4 released to mean something else, 22.1 chosen for next release) would have happened regardless of what scheme was chosen (including all of your wacky ones), because what occured is that an extra real release was added in between the last real release and the designated next real release. No amount of futzing around with pre-release names would have changed that.