From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version naming Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:47:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20141016095111.631bf393@anarchist.wooz.org> <85wq7xcbxe.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <851tq4ree5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413686898 4868 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2014 02:48:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 19 04:48:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XfgXR-0006Eq-JF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 04:48:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfgXQ-0003Uw-Uf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfgX7-0003UQ-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfgWz-0003y0-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:25966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XfgWz-0003xq-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:47:41 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNFxKjo/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="94549496" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.232]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 18 Oct 2014 22:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4868B6542; Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:47:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <851tq4ree5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:18:10 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175551 Archived-At: > I agree it would be nice to be able to do that in a single root, but I > suspect it is not possible in general, because there could be > conflicting requirements; you'd end up with full copies of /* for each > version anyway. I can't see why. I already have emacs19, emacs20, emacs21, emacs22, emacs23, and emacs24 installed at the same time, so I can't see what new problem would be introduced by refining this to the minor version number. Stefan