From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Schulte Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Periodical releases Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:29:20 -0700 Message-ID: <87wr9997bz.fsf@gmx.com> References: <71588355363047528F16FE989690A488@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325536179 24058 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2012 20:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:29:39 +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 21:29:34 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 1RhoVh-0002qU-4O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:29:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoVg-0003LX-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:29:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoVe-0003LH-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoVc-0001C1-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com ([74.208.5.67]:46866) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhoVb-0001Bk-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jan 2012 20:29:26 -0000 Original-Received: from c-174-56-1-147.hsd1.nm.comcast.net (EHLO bagel) [174.56.1.147] by mail.gmx.com (mp-us005) with SMTP; 02 Jan 2012 15:29:26 -0500 X-Authenticated: #67821228 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/3UTpkPfT3oW2OLnepLmp4EgEa1FjnOtsVSoujxW 91JH8DDEnUtwT9 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: 74.208.5.67 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:147193 Archived-At: >> 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. > It seems that the fix here is not to change the Emacs development and release process, but rather to encourage package maintainers to provide packages tracking the Emacs trunk. The debian emacs-snapshot package described as "The GNU Emacs editor (development snapshot)" returns the following which is certainly many months (maybe years?) out of date. $ emacs --version GNU Emacs 23.2.1 Best, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/