From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:32:24 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87is9pdvuf.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.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> <874ql9i60e.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87y8ildw10.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 1096990478 5826 80.91.229.6 (5 Oct 2004 15:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti` , rms@gnu.org, Jerome Marant , emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" , Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 17:34:18 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 1CErKT-0005nW-00 for ; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:34:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CErR7-0001xs-KK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CErR1-0001xm-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CErR1-0001xa-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CErR1-0001xX-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CErK1-0004L7-HX; Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DBE412B; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:33:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 78879410A1; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:32:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87y8ildw10.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:28:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (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:27941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27941 Rob Browning writes: > The only plea I'd like to make is that if possible, Emacs use some > versioning strategy where there's at least one number or numbers > that changes iff substantial backward compatibility is introduced. Oh, and I wasn't trying to imply in the above that Emacs hasn't been doing that. From at least the packaging perspective, my impression is that so far, Emacs has. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4