From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jon Cast Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:22:10 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207022122.g62LMAN19485@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> References: <5xbs9perhe.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025645205 26163 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 21:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti` , Eli Zaretskii , burton@openprivacy.org, Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PVAb-0006ns-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:26:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PVFo-0005NA-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:32:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PVAv-0000l8-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu ([129.15.78.125]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PV6Q-0000IA-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ou.edu (jcast@localhost) by d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62LMAN19485; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:22:10 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu: jcast owned process doing -bs Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: Message from storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 23:42:53 +0200." <5xbs9perhe.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5373 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5373 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote: > Jon Cast writes: > > We could also call the development snapshots 21.4.50, 21.4.51, > > etc. Even better would be 21.4.50.yyyymmdd, IMO (also, yyyymmdd > > makes it abundantly clear it's a snapshot, even to people who > > don't understand the Linux numbering scheme.) > I like this idea! > But I think we should number snapshots -- including pretests -- as > 21.5.0.yyyymmdd > Then the major and minor number for the pretest and snapshots > would be the same as for the actual release. > The current scheme suffers from the problem that the minor > number is off by one... Again, I'm a strong believer in lexicographic ordering. 21.5.0.yyyymmdd sorts higher than 21.5.0, so it should be a later release. > -- > Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk