From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:57:21 -0500 Message-ID: <87oeewl61w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <73766b120502070245671f77ee@mail.gmail.com> <87brawmmzp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107793214 7925 80.91.229.2 (7 Feb 2005 16:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 17:20:11 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyBcA-0001zx-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyBqJ-0003Xf-Sv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:34:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyBn7-0001UK-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyBmr-0001Qr-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyBmo-0001C6-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyBGN-0004j6-LN; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([65.92.240.235]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050207155722.DZZI1694.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B581F2FF89; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:57:21 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:37:34 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 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: , 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33020 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33020 >> Am I the only one who finds himself very much surprised that even >> though he's a fairly active contributor and reads emacs-devel, >> emacs-pretest-bug, gnu.emacs.help, gnus.emacs.bug, >> gnu.emacs.announce, and a few more places, he has not seen any >> announcement (let alone discussion) of this new release? > This question is rhetorical. Partly. But maybe I had missed the announcement/discussion. > It would not appear, however, that either of our opinions would have > any relevance, anyway, so we might just stop musing about such things. [...] > I propose that we now, where another renaming of everything has > seemingly become necessary, decide to call the next major release Your first two lines above should make it clear to you that the second two lines would be a waste of time. Stefan