From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MH-E 8 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:33:21 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27276.1134436178@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134517183 28091 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 23:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 00:39:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from [199.232.75.2] (helo=lists.gnu.org) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJhu-0003lx-BX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:37:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJiS-0002Yu-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJfv-0000Qe-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:35:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJfs-0000MI-IB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EmJfr-0000LQ-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EmJhq-0003Tq-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EmJe5-0002Ws-IT; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:33:21 -0500 Original-To: Bill Wohler In-reply-to: <27276.1134436178@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:09:38 -0800) 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-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 199.232.75.2 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47649 Archived-At: > It is probably better if we postpone a major update till after the > release. How much change would MH-E version 8 entail? Richard, there is little to worry about. If you recall, MH-E now uses the Emacs CVS repository. So CVS Emacs already has an alpha of MH-E 8.0 (aka 7.85). In that case, we would like to have the final MH-E 8 before the Emacs release. For a ballpark estimate, we're looking at about a month or so. We surely won't make the release within a month. > However, the use of doc strings in the manual without extensive > rewriting would tend to make the manual less than ideal. Doc strings > and a manual are rather different, and the text that is good for one > is not very good for the other. For MH-E, it's working out wonderfully. I am surprised. Normally this results in making either the doc string or the manual strained.