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 14:33:40 -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> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a717$Blat.v2.2.2$8e7c1740@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096569285 26752 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 18:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jmarant@free.fr, rlb@defaultvalue.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 20:34:30 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 1CD5l7-000451-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:34:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5rW-0003hz-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:41:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5rL-0003hk-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5rL-0003hL-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD5rK-0003hI-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD5kN-0007lb-KI; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:43 -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 5A6978282AF; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:43 -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 3BD724AC2B6; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 27FD28CA23; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a717$Blat.v2.2.2$8e7c1740@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:00:46 +0200") 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:27738 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27738 >> No, the .50 is used for all the "versions" until the first pretest. >> The pretests then start at .90, then .91, .92, ... and can go to >> .9999999999999999997, ... so we have a large enough pool of pretest >> version numbers. > Actually, some major releases went above .100 in the minor-minor > field. True, that's another way to continue the sequence after .90, ..., .99 and IIRC both have been used in the past. I like the .999 scheme better, tho ;-) Stefan