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From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
Subject: Re: help system question
Date: 1 Jan 2007 05:00:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1167656440.834393.143110@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2596.1167602241.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-01 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-27  9:25 help system question hbe123
2006-12-27 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-27 13:08   ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.2399.1167222233.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-27 13:55   ` H.
2006-12-27 19:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2417.1167247424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-31 21:00       ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-31 21:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2596.1167602241.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-01 13:00           ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2007-01-02 19:17             ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-02 21:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.2669.1167773733.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-03 11:25               ` Robert Thorpe

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