From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Periodical releases Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:41:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87obul3khp.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325536955 30373 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2012 20:42:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Carsten Mattner' , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 21:42:30 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoiD-0007ZR-UC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:42:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoiD-0004z3-7f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhoi9-0004yh-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhoi8-0002Pt-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:59626) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rhoi7-0002Pl-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jan 2012 20:42:22 -0000 Original-Received: from gw.ac.upc.edu (EHLO localhost) [147.83.30.3] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 02 Jan 2012 21:42:22 +0100 X-Authenticated: #12333383 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18b4w125fgbHyc/UOqraxkLTfcu4ZErzBIh9eiKxY Vs6V984pJnpa9V Mail-Followup-To: "Drew Adams" , "'Carsten Mattner'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:05:40 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147194 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: [...] >> I would have less of a need to build emacs manually if >> there were more release and therefore standard emacs >> Linux distros was more up to date. > The problem you raise here is apparently one of the difficulty/nuisance of > building Emacs. It is not about how often to publish releases. > Publishing non-release MS Windows binaries periodically has been _very_ helpful > (thank you again to those who have created and posted the builds). At least on > that platform, that is a solution to the problem you raise. > If the same cannot be done for other platforms then the solution would be to > somehow simplify the difficulty/nuisance of building Emacs on those platforms. > But in no case should that difficulty/nuisance of building be an excuse for > releasing the product before it is fully baked. If building is the only problem, then you might like this (note: debian only): http://emacs.naquadah.org/ Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth