Re: help system question

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
>>> Date: 31 Dec 2006 13:00:58 -0800
>>>
>>> Lots of people seem to have versions of Emacs 22 themselves, and don't
>>> seem to know that it hasn't been officially released.  So people might
>>> think there is little difference between the Emacs22 they have and the
>>> finished one called 22.1.  So, it might be a good idea to give the new
>>> version a higher version number.
>> I don't see a problem here (or misunderstand you): the current Emacs
>> 22 versions are numbered 22.0.NN, so when 22.1 is released, they will
>> know it's newer.
> 
> Yes, but the implication is that it's only 0.5 of a version number
> newer.  That doesn't indicate that the official v22.1 should be
> significantly more bug tested than 22.0.NN ones were.

That's exactly what it indicates: the 22.0.NN versions are pretest
versions (the most recent NN is 92), and 22.1 will be available
when the release criteria are met.

-- 
Kevin