From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CC Mode version number for Emacs 25.2 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 16:40:59 +0000 Message-ID: <20161218164059.GB30217@acm.fritz.box> References: <20161218161335.GA30217@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1482079321 28563 195.159.176.226 (18 Dec 2016 16:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 16:42:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Cc: Emacs developers To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 18 17:41:57 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cIeX6-00072P-Vf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIeXB-0000H4-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIeWd-0000Gm-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:41:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIeWa-0000v0-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:41:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ocolin.muc.de ([193.149.48.4]:10672 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIeWa-0000uw-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 14038 invoked by uid 3782); 18 Dec 2016 16:41:23 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FC460ED.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.196.96.237]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:41:21 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 30826 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Dec 2016 16:41:00 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210604 Archived-At: Hello, Noam. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Noam Postavsky wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Emacs. > > The version of CC Mode within Emacs 25.1 is 5.33. This is unfortunate, > > since that version is at a much earlier stage of development than the > > standalone CC Mode release 5.33. > > This conflict in the use of "5.33" has led to some confusion amongst > > people reporting bugs. > > I would thus like to change the version number in Emacs 25.2 to > > "5.32.99", to minimise further confusion. I think it would be best to > > make an entry about this in NEWS, too. Incidentally, the actual code in > > CC Mode in the Emacs 25 has not changed since the realease of 25.1. > > Does anybody have any objections to this renumbering? > Wouldn't it make more sense to bump the standalone version to 5.34 > rather than moving the builtin version backwards? Not really. Standalone 5.33 has already been released, and its use of the version number is "correct". Emacs 25.1's use of "5.33" for CC Mode was a mistake. I would like to correct that mistake for 25.2. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).