From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 14:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: <85wszcq3zd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <20070513084905.C95BC14297@owie.lan> <857irdqd0d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179060844 31369 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2007 12:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ralf Angeli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 13 14:54:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnDaM-0007bE-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 14:54:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnDhy-0002Ue-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 09:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnDho-0002Rd-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 09:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnDhm-0002Qe-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 09:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnDhl-0002QG-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 09:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnDa5-0006kX-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 08:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.27]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E96B2CBE92; Sun, 13 May 2007 14:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6EA23D49D; Sun, 13 May 2007 14:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-026-019.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.26.19]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423571199A; Sun, 13 May 2007 14:53:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 781F11C0C945; Sun, 13 May 2007 14:53:42 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Ralf Angeli's message of "Sun\, 13 May 2007 13\:28\:49 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70958 Archived-At: Ralf Angeli writes: > * David Kastrup (2007-05-13) writes: > >> The advantage is just one of decoupled updates of centrally organized >> packages to the centrally organized core. >> >> I doubt that this could not equally well be achieved with a policy of >> more frequent releases from a release branch. > > It does not cater for people who think that over 100MB is an obscene > size for an editor. It is quite lean for a desktop environment, > though. Let's put this into perspective: while this has been one of the theoretical motivators of the XEmacs package system, the ratio of people who don't use the "Sumo tarball" of everything is rather small. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum