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: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 19:18:09 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yalm94u.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <871xgejdk7.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <877jq5gqe6.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096993364 14925 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 16:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pot@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jmarant@free.fr, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 18:22:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CEs53-0001ry-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:22:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEsBd-0007c6-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEsBV-0007bw-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CEsBV-0007bk-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CEsBV-0007bh-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CEs4V-0002wG-Ln; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:21:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-37-227-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.37.227]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F3EE749D; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <877jq5gqe6.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:01:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27943 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27943 Rob Browning writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> This could be another argument for using 22.1 for the next release. > > Hmm. I thought I saw some other posts that suggested that you were > going to number the next release 22.1. If not, and if there really is > the potential for significant breakage, then please reconsider. If > there may be trouble, what would be the argument against naming it > 22.1? Everyone already refers to Emacs 22 as Unicode version of Emacs. Releasing 21.4 as 22.1 will cause a lot of confusion: people will start downloading Emacs 22.1 as "Unicode Emacs" and later discover it's actually not what they thought. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/