From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/ChangeLog coding system Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020156705 19392 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2002 08:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 172TMP-00052f-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:51:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 172TQZ-0007O0-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:56:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172TLy-0004H3-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 172TLV-0004Fl-00 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 04:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3U8ofKg029693; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:50:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (jas@localhost) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g3U8ofXH029690; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:50:41 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: yxa.extundo.com: jas owned process doing -bs Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3455 On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > > Emacs 21.3 will be released from the branch, so it cannot have Dave's > > > code. This will have to wait until the first release from the current > > > CVS head. > > > > If this is so, shouldn't the ":version" `defcustom' parameters I just > > proposed in the patch to lisp/mail/smtpmail.el and > > lisp/mail/sendmail.el be changed to "21.4" or whatever the next > > version will be that will include the fixes? > > Yes. Could some change it? Thanks. > > The :version parameter > > seem to require that there exists a release plan for future releases > > so it is possible to add the correct information. > > The trouble with release plans is that they tend to change ;-) > > Seriously, though: we are just learning how to deal with branches. I > guess this issue is part of the learning process. Suggestions for > solutions are welcome. The only solution I can think of is that :version contains the alpha release version in CVS, and whenever someone changes the release version he has to replace the version in the elisp as well. It could be done by a script. But I'm not sure it is an ideal solution.