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From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia <juanleon1@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:35:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wttkigjp.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5d5vc8tt8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:59:15 +0100")

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> I could just cry.  Now, AGAIN, I have a whole slew of documentation,
> help files, announcements and stuff like that rendered false and junk
> and misleading.  This was the _exact_ reason that it was proposed that
> 22.0 would become the next big version number, and it was turned down
> finally by everybody agreeing that we'd make it 21.4 instead.

I don't think it was turned down as such -- everybody just seemed to
have their own idea exactly what the new scheme should be, so no
consensus was reached.

> And now this.  I can't say how much hairtearing this will mean.  Is
> there any chance that we get this changed to 21.3.1 or 21.3-b or
> something like that _before_ the news spreads?
>
> Please, Richard?

Sadly, I think it is too late.

So it's about time to reopen the "change the numbering to 22.x" story.
Sigh.

--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-07 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07 10:45 strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia
2005-02-07 11:52 ` Romain Francoise
2005-02-07 11:59 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 13:54   ` Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia
2005-02-07 14:35   ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2005-02-07 15:05     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 15:33       ` Jan D.
2005-02-07 15:37       ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 15:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 16:40           ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 17:25             ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-07 21:56             ` Jérôme Marant
2005-02-07 22:44               ` David Kastrup
2005-02-08  8:20                 ` Jérôme Marant
2005-02-07 16:02         ` David Kastrup
2005-02-07 16:11       ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-07 20:24       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-02-07 20:42         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-08 11:46   ` Richard Stallman

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