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: 02 Jul 2002 17:06:03 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200206300644.g5U6irvR010148@adams0-57.reshall.ou.edu> <87pty7t9q6.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> <5xit3ypl9d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> 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 1025597407 13769 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 08:10:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:10:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti` , Jon Cast , Eli Zaretskii , burton@openprivacy.org, 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 17PIjf-0003Zx-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:10:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PIoa-00048H-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:15:13 +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 17PIic-000885-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:09:02 -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 17PIgx-00080l-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 04:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g6286HR13662; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:06:17 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g6286Gr04374; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:06:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g6286F428287; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:06:15 +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 g62867K18248; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:06:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 32C3437DD; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:06:03 +0900 (JST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <5xit3ypl9d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Original-Lines: 13 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:5306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5306 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Alternatively, we could adapt the linux numbering where odd-minor are > development versions and even-minor are releases, e.g. What would be the point of that? As far as I can tell, emacs simply doesn't have `development releases', except for the flurry of quick releases for pretesting. For those, I think the current scheme, of using high-numbered minor versions, is much better than the scheme linux uses. -Miles -- P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false, for reasons of military security.