From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: 04 Jul 2002 10:35:51 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200207032054.g63KswD22435@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025746749 18484 127.0.0.1 (4 Jul 2002 01:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ken Raeburn , Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PvaO-0004o1-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 03:39:08 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PvgA-0001az-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 03:45:06 +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 17PvaM-0005in-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PvXz-0005Ze-00; Wed, 03 Jul 2002 21:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g641a1R25430; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:36:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g641a1o25394; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:36:01 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g641ZqN13415; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:35:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g641ZpK19075; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:35:51 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 3D5203710; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:35:51 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Jon Cast System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200207032054.g63KswD22435@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> Original-Lines: 17 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5432 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5432 Jon Cast writes: > I apologize for saying 18 was the first non-1.x release (whoops), but > I stand firm in my position major number changes have always meant > significant changes internally (although clearly not the other way > around). Anyway I don't think it really matters if this convention wasn't followed strictly a long time ago; it's been followed pretty consistently for over a decade at least, I'd say, and people definitely get excited when they hear that an emacs release with a bumped major version is coming... -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]