From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ? Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:55:42 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <871xmp136a.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082056498 10407 80.91.224.253 (15 Apr 2004 19:14:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 21:14:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BECJq-00012x-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:14:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BECJq-0000BD-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:14:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BECJ9-0002V0-Ad for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BECIT-00022v-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BECHe-0001fW-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BEC3R-0002di-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-44-73-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.44.73]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B7811DC10; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "15 Apr 2004 19:40:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21714 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21714 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > NEWS is currently +12000 lines. > > Maybe we should move the +4000 lines related to 20.x to ONEWS. I must say that having news for old releases in one file is very inconvenient. For example, isearching it for some newest feature, the user can't see if the string that isearch displays is in the latest version or in one of older versions! Ideally, NEWS should have a version number in its extension: NEWS.20.1 NEWS.20.2 NEWS.20.3 NEWS.20.4 NEWS.20.5 NEWS.20.6 NEWS.20.7 NEWS.21.1 NEWS.21.2 NEWS.21.3 NEWS.21.4 If having too many files is undesirable, then files for only _major_ releases could be created, with the NEWS file containing news for the latest _minor_ release: NEWS -- news for 21.4 NEWS.21 -- news for 21.1, 21.2, 21.3 NEWS.20 -- news for all 20.* -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/