From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New test files in emacs-25 branch Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:32:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8pqipgk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2ovix06.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh9bo1wp.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83fuzji93v.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5bxihw.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449217992 14472 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 08:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 08:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 09:33:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4lnW-00067T-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:32:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4lnV-0006XC-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4lnK-0006Vg-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4lnG-0000Vh-Uf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:32:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:43233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4lnG-0000VS-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYT00900RM96400@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:31:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYT008E6ROXGB10@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:31:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878u5bxihw.fsf@russet.org.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195855 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: > Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:41:31 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> I guess this crossed my mind sometime after I offered to move all the > >> file locations. Probably it would have made sense to leave things till > >> after the emacs-25. > > > > It wouldn't have mattered. Emacs 25.1 is not going to be the only > > version delivered from the emacs-25 branch. > > Really? I assumed 25.2 was going to fork from current master. It could be, but given our previous history, it rarely happens. The master branch gets many new features very quickly, so making a minor release from it no longer makes sense. That is the price we pay for not freezing master when a release is being prepared. > I was thinking of the situation where a new file is added to > emacs-25, merged to master and then more tests are added (i.e. the > new files is subsequently updated). As you say, the addition of a > file into two places is not so bad. But it would be nice if > subsequent updates to the file worked. I don't expect them to work.