From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jon Cast Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No calc in pretest? Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:30:44 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207022030.g62KUiB19267@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> References: <5xit3ypl9d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025641971 18250 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2002 20:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Francesco Potorti` , Eli Zaretskii , burton@openprivacy.org, Emacs Devel Mailing List Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUKR-0004kF-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:32:51 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUPc-0004By-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:38:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUKe-0003kq-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu ([129.15.78.125]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17PUIh-0003aX-00; Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ou.edu (jcast@localhost) by d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62KUiB19267; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:30:44 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu: jcast owned process doing -bs Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: Message from storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) of "Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:49:34 +0200." <5xit3ypl9d.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5362 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote: > Alternatively, we could adapt the linux numbering where odd-minor > are development versions and even-minor are releases, e.g. > 22.1.1 -- CVS development version for 22.2 > 22.1.90 -- pretest for 22.2 > 22.2.1 -- initial release > 22.2.2 -- bug-fix > 22.3.1 -- CVS development version for 22.4 > 22.3.90 -- pretest > 22.4.1 -- release I don't think this is necessary, and it might be too similar to Linux to avoid confusing people---the second number in a Linux version number is practically a major version number; we don't want to give the impression that's true for Emacs. > The suggested numbering scheme would also allow us to make > development snapshots like 22.1.1, 22.1.2, 22.1.3 etc. to be > announced on the pretesters list for interrim feedback during > development for those interested. [I'm not implying that we > _should_ do this, just that we _can_ do it]. We could also call the development snapshots 21.4.50, 21.4.51, etc. Even better would be 21.4.50.yyyymmdd, IMO (also, yyyymmdd makes it abundantly clear it's a snapshot, even to people who don't understand the Linux numbering scheme.) > -- > Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk Jon Cast