From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs 21.2 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:44:56 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <6480-Fri22Mar2002134455+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016797890 7148 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 11:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oNZy-0001rB-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:51:30 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16oNgc-0005Sq-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:58:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oNZh-0001v3-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from odin.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.10]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oNWu-0001gg-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:48:20 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (diup-217-59.inter.net.il [213.8.217.59]) by odin.inter.net.il (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AHN36712; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:48:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: simon.marshall@misys.com X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: (simon.marshall@misys.com) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2122 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2122 > From: "Marshall, Simon" > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:40:59 -0000 > > I realise that Emacs releases have changed, and odd-numbered releases > are different in some way to even-numbered releases, but could someone > explain what the difference is meant to be? There's no such rule; odd-numbered releases are not special. What actually happens is that the bug-fix releases, such as 21.2, are produced from a CVS branch, while development continues on the trunk. Changes committed on the trunk alone won't be seen in the releases produced from the branch. If we decide that there should be another bugfix release, it will be labeled 21.3, but will still be produced from the release branch. This didn't start with Emacs 21, btw: Emacs 20.6 and 20.7 were also produced from a branch (except that in that case, ``the branch'' was a separate directory rather than a VC branch). > Many of the problems I raised since the last pretest (AFAIK 21.1.90, > almost 2 months ago), which (AFAIK) were fixed when reported, are not > fixed in 21.2. As a matter of principle, the release branch only gets safe bugfixes, so it's possible that some of the changes are not there if they were deemed unsafe, or if the bugs were deemed not grave enough to risk a change. It is also possible that we forgot to commit the changes to the branch, so please tell what changes, specifically, do you have in mind. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel