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: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:56:32 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vfdwo6y7.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096509500 2241 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 01:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 03:58:09 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 1CCqCu-0001cZ-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:58:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCqJH-0004b6-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCqJ7-0004b1-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CCqJ7-0004ao-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CCqJ7-0004al-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CCqCf-0000nJ-4c; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249133FB1; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:57:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 441F2410A1; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:56:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:53:32 -0500 (CDT)") 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:27686 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27686 Luc Teirlinck writes: > After grepping for `emacs-version', it appears that changing the > current convention would require checking a surprisingly *huge* > amount of code. A non-trivial amount of code will probably have to > be rewritten. version.el definitely would have to be rewritten. > This is a small file. But it would then in turn force rewriting all > kind of other stuff, spread all over the place. Many third party > packages may get broken, as they tend to check for emacs-version a > lot and rely on the current conventions. Ahh. I wondered about that. OK, well, as I mentioned, I'm not set on any particular approach. I just wanted to bring up the release issues before deciding on a process. Of course, none of this has to be resolved immediately. It can certainly wait until 21.4 is ready. Thanks -- 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