From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:02:25 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <01c4a6f7$Blat.v2.2.2$8c5c2b00@zahav.net.il> <20040930143241.GA2296@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096556670 18166 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 15:04:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:04:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, Eli Zaretskii , storm@cua.dk, rlb@defaultvalue.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 17:04:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD2TR-0000Of-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2Zo-0000GC-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2ZI-0000G7-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2ZG-0000FW-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2ZG-0000FL-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD2S1-0005xl-2w; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B408282C6; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60794AC64C; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 975988CA23; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040930143241.GA2296@fencepost> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:32:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=0, requis 5) X-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27711 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27711 >> Anyway, what's wrong with the current scheme that we need to abandon it > Because the current scheme is confusing to users. I've certainly observed > doubt as to whether a new Emacs release "means anything" (i.e. lots of new > features, or just a few random fixes) or not. If you want that kind of clarity, then either say: - use MAJOR.MINOR where MINOR is only incremented for bugfix releases and MAJOR is incremented for non-bugfix releases. I.e. the next release would then be 22.1 and unicode would be 23.1. - Use MAJOR.MIDDLE.MINOR where the difference is that some non-bugfix releases are deemed non-major (e.g. the next one would then be 21.4.1 and unicode would be 22.1.1). Stefan