From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?b?Suly9G1l?= Marant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1096559931.415c2d3be2b95@imp4-q.free.fr> References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a705$Blat.v2.2.2$0342c8c0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096561033 32328 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 16:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 18:17:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD3c3-0007rE-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:17:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD3i9-0002M4-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:23:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD3RF-0005uJ-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD3RE-0005tx-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD3RE-0005tp-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:05:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.228.0.176] (helo=postfix4-2.free.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD3KW-0007Fw-Qr; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from imp4-q.free.fr (imp4-q.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031DB209DC4; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by imp4-q.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id F2095F7A7; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:51 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mure.msy.sagem.com (mure.msy.sagem.com [62.160.59.178]) by imp4-q.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:51 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4a705$Blat.v2.2.2$0342c8c0@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 62.160.59.178 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27721 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27721 Quoting Eli Zaretskii : > I think Emacs is such a large package that it doesn't make sense to > have a new version more than once in a month or two. But that, too, > was never discussed nor codified since we never could end a pretest as > soon as that. Perhaps we should delay this discussion until we get to > such a situation for the first time. How about using odd minor version numbers for development versions and even minor version number for stable releases? Hence, 21.4.z would be a stable release and we would freely use z. 21.5.z would be the next development release renamed 22.0 later? -- J=E9r=F4me Marant