From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 02:14:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> References: <4654BBC8.7010201@gmail.com> <4654C2CF.1060402@gnu.org> <4654C5AA.9000204@gmail.com> <4654CC27.3000908@gmail.com> <87odkbunni.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4654CF9B.40309@gmail.com> <4654D337.8070602@gnu.org> <4654D44C.2000303@gmail.com> <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1179965702 9205 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 00:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Chong Yidong , Emacs Devel To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 02:14:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hr0yh-0007uE-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 02:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr0yj-0008Bi-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:14:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr0yf-0008A9-4C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr0yc-00087x-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hr0yb-00087a-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hr0yY-000325-Gj; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62597 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Hr0yS-0005bv-4p; Thu, 24 May 2007 02:14:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000742-1, 2007-05-22), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Hr0yS-0005bv-4p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Hr0yS-0005bv-4p 9967053e15709181d24144e02855ef25 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:71703 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >> The information about EMACS_22_BASE is specific to Emacs. Where would >> you suggest to put that information? >> > It is probably useful to list the active branches somewhere, but that is > a different matter than handholding users through the exact CVS commands > to use in every circumstance. I do not think there is anything wrong with handholding per se as long as it does not lead to cluttering of the information. I think the way that saves most time should be used. And then the normal thinking may apply: there are probably many times more readers than writers. (And many of them can potentially be helpful with Emacs.)