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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: raman@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: raman@users.sourceforge.net, andreas.roehler@online.de,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Experimental features
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:42:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwsxtnqig.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18045.60441.244911.539225@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raman@users.sf.net)

> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:59:21 -0700
> From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, andreas.roehler@online.de, raman@users.sourceforge.net
> 
> That is an advantage because as we have seen with the transition
> from emacs 21.4 to 22, it takes a *long* time for   a major Emacs
> version to come out --- and with good reason, since stability of
> Emacs is important to all of us.

That is a reason to make Emacs releases shorter, not to release
packages separately.

> But that also means that smaller packages will --- and *should*
> be allowed to --- evolve faster.

I don't quite see the logic of this conclusion.  If Emacs must be
stable, so do the packages that come with it.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-24 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 21:05 Experimental features Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22 21:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-23  4:15   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-23 12:40     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-23 19:07       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-23  2:51 ` dhruva
2007-06-23  6:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2007-06-24  1:43   ` T. V. Raman
2007-06-24  3:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-24  3:59       ` T. V. Raman
2007-06-24 18:42         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-23 13:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-23 13:37   ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 14:40     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-24 14:53       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-06-24 19:25         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-23 19:16   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-24 14:41     ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-24 19:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-24 23:47         ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-28 18:51           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-29 19:33             ` Richard Stallman

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