From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161980403 1755 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2006 20:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 22:20:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY7Q-00085k-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:15:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY7P-0000xU-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:15:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY7B-0000vz-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY79-0000vi-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY79-0000vf-D9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GdY79-0005Qy-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GdY1r-0006P4-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:10:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([83.227.131.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:10:11 +0200 Original-Received: from joakim by ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:10:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ua-83-227-131-3.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/hCT/7GPZhafAJtl+f2yw59p2dg= 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61253 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: builds and runs ok on the following plattform: Linux kurono.home 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:06 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > With Richard's agreement, I've bumped the version number to 22.0.90 > and rolled a pretest tarball. The tarball can be found at > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-22.0.90.tar.gz > > Since Leim has been merged into Emacs, there is no separate > leim-22.0.90.tar.gz (I'll update admin/make-announcement to reflect > this). > > Since this is the first Emacs 22 pretest tarball, it would be nice if > people could take a look and make sure there are no problems building > from, before we think about making any pretest announcement. > > > If no problems are found, I guess we can proceed with the pretest. > According to admin/make-tarball, RMS is supposed to announce it to the > list of emacs pretesters; here is the canned announcement generated by > admin/make-announcement: > > There is a new pretest available in > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-22.0.90.tar.gz > > Please report results from compiling and running the pretest to > . Your feedback is necessary for us > to know on which platforms the pretest has been tried. > > (I took out some additional info about xdelta's between this tarball > and the previous pretest tarball, because there is no previous > tarball). > > > The question is, who do we announce the pretest to? Is the emacs > pretesters mailing list still extant? If not, I think we should just > make a public announcement about the availability of the pretest > tarball on the Gnu Emacs webpage. We could also contact distributions > such as Debian, which package occasional CVS snapshots of Emacs 22, to > switch to tracking the numbered pretest tarballs for those packages > instead. -- Joakim Verona http://www.verona.se