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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>     Maybe the CVS version could be fixed at 21.4.-99 Pretests would
>     then use 21.4.-98, 21.4.-97, ...  etc. as a count-down towards
>     the final release which will be 21.4.0 Any bug fixes for that
>     release will be 21.4.1, 21.4.2 etc.

> This might be a good idea.  (I would probably start at -10 rather
> than -99.)

I agree.  However, IMO the first pretest should be -20 or -30 rather
than -10 --- from what I understand, Emacs 21 went up to pretest 106
from 90, which makes 17 pretests.

I assume CVS would be -50 or some such?

> To avoid confusion, the real release should be .1, not .0.

I'm not sure I follow this.  Confusion about what?

Jon Cast