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: strange emacs 21.4 on ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/emacs Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:35:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <73766b120502070245671f77ee@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107787601 19342 80.91.229.6 (7 Feb 2005 14:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juan LEON Lahoz Garcia , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 07 15:46:34 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CyA9q-0005Y0-00 for ; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:46:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyANz-00006A-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyAK5-0006oB-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyAK1-0006lm-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyAK1-0006kR-0X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CyA5i-00050r-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 21944 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 14:35:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 14:35:36 -0000 Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:59:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) 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: , 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33009 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33009 David Kastrup 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 http://www.cua.dk