From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kevin A. Burton" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about new release of Emacs Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 23:46:49 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <413964D9.9030703@newsmonster.org> References: <864qmi5aw4.fsf@brailcom.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094280437 5614 80.91.224.253 (4 Sep 2004 06:47:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 06:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jan Buchal , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 08:47:09 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 1C3UKL-0004W0-00 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 08:47:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3UPO-0006UX-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3UPI-0006TP-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C3UPH-0006Sv-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C3UPH-0006Ss-Ch for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [12.43.53.196] (helo=mail.sofari.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C3UKA-0000hd-EG; Sat, 04 Sep 2004 02:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.103] (dsl093-132-107.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.132.107]) by mail.sofari.com (8.12.11/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i846kngr005526; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 23:46:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: 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:26765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26765 David Kastrup wrote: > If you really need something, there is little you can do except > >checkout a particular version from CVS. You can try taking a look at >the ChangeLogs of the last 4 weeks or so to find some version which >does not have bad bugs introduced and fixed shortly after the version. > >As for the actual next release: we are ni feature freeze for 21.4, but >there are still various issues remaining. My personal guess is that >chances are 50:50 it may appear in 2004. But others will have other >opinions. There are no fixed release dates or objectives: once the >developers feel that all problems have been addressed satisfactorily, >the release will happen. There is no sense in releasing it before >that, and little sense to wait much longer after that. > > I can speak from a users perspective... the sooner the better... at least for a beta ... I'd settle for a beta :) I need to look at this socket interface... sounds REALLY interesting... Hope it supports async IO!!! Kevin -- Please reply using PGP. http://peerfear.org/pubkey.asc NewsMonster - http://www.newsmonster.org/ Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412 IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster