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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: mrf <joinlaw@cock.li>
Cc: , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:14:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtra8taq.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg12ocse.fsf@cock.li> (mrf's message of "Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:56:20 +0300")

>>>>> mrf  <joinlaw@cock.li> writes:

    > Colin Baxter writes:

    >> The current emacs development version is "28.0.5". I know that
    >> "28" is the value of the emacs-major-version variable and "0" is
    >> the value of the emacs-minor-version variable. I assume "5" is
    >> also the value of a variable, but what's its name?

    > The third number after the dots is called micro or in some
    > projects patch, please take a look at semantic versioning
    > (semver.org) and the book (Producing Open Source Software by karl
    > fogel)<free and gratis
    book> despite the name of this book the author (karl fogel) is
    > mentioning the relation between free software and open source and
    > uses the term to describe same thing, anyway this book explain at
    > chapter 7 the naming practices in software development.

    > In addition take look at the section that describe even/odd
    > (stable/unstable) strategy:

    > https://producingoss.com/en/development-cycle.html

    > BTW This is basic software engineering issue.

Thanks for the information, even if in this particular case it's not
directly appropriate for emacs.

Best wishes,



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-28  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-26 18:05 Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...? Colin Baxter
2021-06-26 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 19:38   ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-27  5:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28  3:56 ` mrf
2021-06-28  4:22   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-28  5:29     ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-28  5:30     ` mrf
2021-06-28  5:14   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2021-06-29 10:07   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-29 22:11     ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver (was: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?) Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 19:49       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 20:00         ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 21:30           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06  9:28             ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06  9:54               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 11:49                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06 16:29                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:00                   ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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