From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_H=FChn?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:34:49 +0200 Message-ID: <876470kgba.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de> References: <877irhn4yh.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de> <861whp2mhn.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87ps58ubzn.fsf@onosendai.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178800524 19465 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2007 12:35:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:35:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 10 14:35:20 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 1Hm7ra-00073w-RC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm7yt-0004uz-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm7yp-0004uh-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm7yo-0004uN-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm7yo-0004uK-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hm7rU-0007SX-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hm7rL-0003WM-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from p54a0f2c1.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.160.242.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from newsgroups by p54a0f2c1.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 14:35:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a0f2c1.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d7auwkNAgBm0C4ACGX60uwhjm1c= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70752 Archived-At: Andrea Russo writes: > The tremendous extensibility of Emacs trough elisp is very helpful to > become a contributor, but I think that bluring the user/developer line > also by having users running the development version (or at least > being able to switch from released to development version in a very > easy way) could be a great goal to achieve. If you want "normal" users to use Emacs-CVS, you need to provide regular snapshots and -- much more important -- you must never ever break Emacs on the trunc during development. Thomas