From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:51:35 +1300 Message-ID: <17755.39415.858916.853568@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <871wotmv3w.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163631406 8199 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2006 22:56:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , David Hansen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 15 23:56:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkTfc-0002v6-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:55:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkTfb-0007mG-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:55:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkTfQ-0007mB-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkTfM-0007lz-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkTfM-0007lw-LC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:55:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GkTfL-000692-13; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-125-17.snap.net.nz [202.124.125.17]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D463D837A; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:55:58 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 32268BE43E; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:51:37 +1300 (NZDT) Original-To: Reiner Steib In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.90.14 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62358 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > >> As there are already a lot of "normal" users out there who use > >> Emacs 22 for daily work why not gnu.emacs.help? > > > > If they already use the CVS code, they don't need the announcement, do > > they? > > Probably some of them don't update from CVS frequently. The > availability of a pretest might encourage those to upgrade to the > pretest. Also if there are build problems with the tarball (the main purpose of the pretest tarball?) then they won't be noticed just by using the CVS code. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob