From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: 02 Jul 2002 11:43:55 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5x8z4upiqs.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200206300644.g5U6irvR010148@adams0-57.reshall.ou.edu> <87pty7t9q6.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> <5xit3ypl9d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025599525 17419 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 08:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti` , Jon Cast , 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 17PJHp-0004Wq-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PJMl-0004rm-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:50:31 +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 17PJHT-0003cu-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PJFm-00037M-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 266AD7C017; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:5309 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5309 Miles Bader writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > > Alternatively, we could adapt the linux numbering where odd-minor are > > development versions and even-minor are releases, e.g. > > What would be the point of that? As far as I can tell, emacs simply doesn't > have `development releases', except for the flurry of quick releases for > pretesting. For those, I think the current scheme, of using high-numbered > minor versions, is much better than the scheme linux uses. Emacs doesn't use high-numbered "minor" versions for pretests. It uses high-numbered "minor-minor" numbers (which I think is a good idea), but the "minor" number of the pretest is plain wrong! The pretest has the same minor number as the previous release, so code cannot test emacs-minor-version for any practical purpose. [The current CVS has emacs-minor-version == 3, although we all expect the next release to be 21.4]. I don't know any code which breaks because of this though. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk