From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:00:05 +0200 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$8c5c2b00@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096556503 17639 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 15:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, rlb@defaultvalue.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 17:01:34 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD2R3-000072-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:01:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2XQ-00087i-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2Wn-00082O-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2Wl-00081e-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD2Wl-00081J-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD2Pf-0005Uy-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 45161 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 15:00:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 15:00:06 -0000 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a6f7$Blat.v2.2.2$8c5c2b00@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:11:38 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:27710 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27710 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) >> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:36:33 +0200 >> Cc: jerome.marant@free.fr, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, >> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rlb@defaultvalue.org, miles@gnu.org >> >> CVS emacs currently has emacs-version 21.3.50.12 or similar, so >> what need changing? > > I might be missing something, but don't we assume somewhere that > X.Y.Z.NN version signals a pretest, while X.Y.NN signals a released > version? Yes, and it is VERY confusion --- since X.Y.Z.NN is really a pretest of X.(Y+1) We once discussed the idea to use negative Z values for CVS and pretests, e.g. instead of 21.3.50.NN we would have 21.4.-99.NN for CVS version and pretests vould be 21.4.-98, 21.4.-97 etc. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk