From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:32:32 +0000 (UTC) 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> <87brfnelle.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096572781 4654 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 19:33:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 21:32:56 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 1CD6ff-0000l9-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:32:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6m4-000115-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:39:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6lx-00010r-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6lx-00010b-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6lx-00010R-1b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.110.189] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD6fN-00084O-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87brfnelle.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:02:37 -0500) 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:27741 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27741 Rob Browning wrote > emacs-major-version > emacs-minor-version > emacs-tertiary-version FWIW this has also been called the "micro" version in other projects, i.e. emacs-micro-version. That is OK with me. It is not a big deal. The reason I think in terms of `tertiants', is that the base of each component in a version number may be different. Dates and times use months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and (occasionally) tertiants. These components are not all numbered in base 12 (as they ought to be). Whenever I think in terms of `micro', and `nano', I think of components using the same base, like microseconds and nanoseconds. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc