From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Suggestion: Make snapshots of Emacs available Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:00:34 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16151.64898.973485.566624@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058541020 7674 80.91.224.249 (18 Jul 2003 15:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 17:10:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19dWs5-0001yo-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:10:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19dX7K-00030g-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 17:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19dWqm-0007sw-Uv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19dWq3-0007fx-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19dWpt-0007Jh-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from bts-0438.dialup.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.49.182] helo=nick.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19dWoR-0006Ij-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id D4E4675FDE; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:00:35 +0100 (BST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15650 I've noticed that the GDB developers make a daily snapshot of their current CVS source available on the internet. See ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/snapshots/current/ I realise that RedHat may have more bandwidth resources that the FSF and that its probably most efficient to use CVS directly. However, one advantage of doing this would be that a copy of what's in the CVS repository becomes available to Emacs users who are behind company firewalls. Currently, some of those people download existing releases and may report bugs to bug-gnu-emacs. If snapshots were made available, some might download these and provide more extensive pretesting prior to release which they could report to emacs-pretest-bug. It might also relieve some of the frustration among Emacs developers arising from the long time between non-bugfix releases. I therefore suggest that a daily, weekly or monthly snapshot of Emacs be put on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs Nick