From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:53:32 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096505697 28091 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 00:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, rlb@defaultvalue.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 02:54:41 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 1CCpDV-0007PI-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:54:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCpJr-0008KB-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCpJk-0008K2-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCpJj-0008Jo-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCpJj-0008Ja-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CCpDE-0008Mb-Mw; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8U0s3iU009644; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:54:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i8U0rWh20758; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:53:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: jerome.marant@free.fr In-reply-to: <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> (message from =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:22:05 +0200) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27684 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27684 Jerome Marant wrote: Selon Rob Browning : > So while I don't have any special attachment to the X.Y.Z numbering > scheme, it's at least one way to fix both those problems. It brings some consistency to version numbering at least. If noone objects (Stefan won't :-), we'll adopt this scheme. After grepping for `emacs-version', it appears that changing the current convention would require checking a surprisingly *huge* amount of code. A non-trivial amount of code will probably have to be rewritten. version.el definitely would have to be rewritten. This is a small file. But it would then in turn force rewriting all kind of other stuff, spread all over the place. Many third party packages may get broken, as they tend to check for emacs-version a lot and rely on the current conventions. Sincerely, Luc.