Emacs 24.1 release candidate

Emacs 24.1 release candidate

[Chong Yidong]

The Emacs 24.1 release candidate is now available for download via FTP,
at the following location:

 http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.1-rc.tar.gz

Note that this tarball installs as Emacs 24.1.  If there are no serious
last-minute problems with this release candidate, it will serve as the
actual 24.1 tarball, in about a week.  (If serious problems are found,
we can still change it.)  So please give this release candidate as much
testing as possible.

Please send me an email reporting success or failure on your build
platform.  Please report any bugs that you come across via M-x
report-emacs-bugs, or email bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.

For Emacs developers: for now, please refrain from altering the emacs-24
branch without discussing with me or Stefan.  This tarball is made from
revision 108027 on the branch.  The emacs-24.1 tag will be applied when
the actual release happens.  After the release, the emacs-24 branch will
be left alone, with development for 24.2 occurring on the trunk, until
just before the 24.2 release.

Thanks for helping to test Emacs.

Please include updated rst.el in 24.1 release (was: Emacs 24.1 release candidate)

[Stefan Merten]

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Hi!

Yesterday Chong Yidong wrote:
> If there are no serious
> last-minute problems with this release candidate, it will serve as the
> actual 24.1 tarball, in about a week.

I don't know whether this qualifies as a serious last-minute problem
but...

> This tarball is made from
> revision 108027 on the branch.

...I did the massive update in `list/textmodes/rst.el' from revision
108148 on. Thus I guess they are not included in the release
candidate. Since this update really is a (long pending) major
improvement: Would it be possible to include it in the release
candidate?


						Grüße

						Stefan

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Re: Please include updated rst.el in 24.1 release

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de> writes:

> ...I did the massive update in `list/textmodes/rst.el' from revision
> 108148 on. Thus I guess they are not included in the release
> candidate. Since this update really is a (long pending) major
> improvement: Would it be possible to include it in the release
> candidate?

Sorry, no.  If you wanted a major update of your package to be included
in Emacs 24.1, the right time to commit it would have been before we
began the pretest, back in September.  It will have to wait for 24.2.

Re: Please include updated rst.el in 24.1 release (was: Emacs 24.1 release candidate)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de>
> Comments: In-reply-to Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> 	message dated "Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:39:20 +0800."
> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:02:10 +0200
> 
> ...I did the massive update in `list/textmodes/rst.el' from revision
> 108148 on. Thus I guess they are not included in the release
> candidate. Since this update really is a (long pending) major
> improvement: Would it be possible to include it in the release
> candidate?

108148 is a revision on the trunk; it doesn't exist on the emacs-24
release branch.  Thus, it was never meant to be in Emacs 24.1.

Re: Please include updated rst.el in 24.1 release

[Stefan Merten]

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Hi!

1 hours ago Chong Yidong wrote:
> Sorry, no.  If you wanted a major update of your package to be included
> in Emacs 24.1, the right time to commit it would have been before we
> began the pretest, back in September.  It will have to wait for 24.2.

I understand. On second thought it might be better anyway.

Can you give me an idea on the release frequency of Emacs minor
versions?


						Grüße

						Stefan

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Re: Please include updated rst.el in 24.1 release

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Merten <smerten@oekonux.de> writes:

> Can you give me an idea on the release frequency of Emacs minor
> versions?

See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#History

Re: Emacs 24.1 release candidate

[Sam Steingold]

> * Chong Yidong <plq@tah.bet> [2012-06-01 18:39:20 +0800]:
>
> For Emacs developers: for now, please refrain from altering the
> emacs-24 branch without discussing with me or Stefan.

does this mean that it's okay to commit to trunk?
how do I make sure that I am using the trunk (I have no reason to think
I am not, but just in case)

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Re: Emacs 24.1 release candidate

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:12:11 -0400
> 
> > * Chong Yidong <plq@tah.bet> [2012-06-01 18:39:20 +0800]:
> >
> > For Emacs developers: for now, please refrain from altering the
> > emacs-24 branch without discussing with me or Stefan.
> 
> does this mean that it's okay to commit to trunk?

People do that all the time, so I guess the answer is yes.

> how do I make sure that I am using the trunk

"bzr info" should show you that information.  For me it says

  Repository checkout (format: 2a)
  Location:
    repository checkout root: .
	  checkout of branch: bzr+ssh://eliz@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
	   shared repository: D:/gnu/bzr/emacs

  Related branches:
    public branch: bzr+ssh://eliz@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk
    parent branch: bzr+ssh://eliz@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/

in the trunk and

  Repository checkout (format: 2a)
  Location:
    repository checkout root: .
	  checkout of branch: bzr+ssh://eliz@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-24/
	   shared repository: D:/gnu/bzr/emacs

  Related branches:
    parent branch: bzr+ssh://eliz@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-24/

in the emacs-24 branch.