From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Whitfield Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:34:00 +0800 Message-ID: <43f56e58$0$17097$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140202884 29274 80.91.229.2 (17 Feb 2006 19:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 17 20:01:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAAqp-0004p7-4K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:01:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FA8h9-0001hh-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:43:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!203.59.27.186.MISMATCH!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.9.243 Original-X-Trace: 1140158041 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 17097 203.59.9.243 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137623 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33248 Archived-At: Ramprasad B wrote: > --- Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> The latest version uploaded are now 2006-02-01 for the patched version >> and 2006-01-31 for the unpatched version. > > But, what about ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ ? > Why are the timestamps of files are still */*/2004 ? Because that's how old the actual Official released versions are. ALL the more recent versions are NOT released... They are build from CVS and are pre-release / alpha / beta software. That said, for me, they are quite stable and I used them very day. > Is there any other place where native emacs and emacs w32 is being placed ? > For native emacs - emacs-21.4a.tar.gz, it is 2/17/2005 ? > Why is this happening ? I don't think there has every been an "official" release of version 21.4a for windows.. I have long since moved onto the bleeding edge. Paul