RE: Old versions of GNU Emacs

["Ben Wing" <ben@666.com>]

How do I get access to the repository?  Is there read-only access
anonymously?
[presumably there's a web site?]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:57 PM
> To: Ben Wing
> Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org; emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Old versions of GNU Emacs
> 
> 
> > So far I've located 18.55, 18.59, 19.22, 19.28 and onward, 
> and patches 
> > to run forward from 19.7 to 19.22 and 19.23 to 19.28.  Note the gap 
> > between 19.22 and 19.23 and the oddity of finding exactly 
> the *LAST* 
> > version in the patch series, when running patches backwards is not 
> > easy due to added and deleted files.
> 
> I seem to remember there was at least one case where no patch 
> was distributed because it was just too large.  Could have 
> been between 19.22 and 19.23.
> 
> For those revs that you just can't recover, you may want to 
> look at the CVS repository if you want to try and re-generate 
> the tar file.  I've done something similar a few times to 
> generate missing tags such as EMACS_19_34.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
>