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 12:48:19 +0200 Message-ID: <46556D73.6070007@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> <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> <86odkabtlb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <465563EB.9070400@gmail.com> <46556937.7080701@gnu.org> <46556A66.6020901@gmail.com> <86lkfea4e3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> 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 1180003760 6217 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 10:49:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 10:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Jason Rumney To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 12:49:15 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 1HrAsd-0007Tt-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:49:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAsf-0008Es-Up for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrAro-0007os-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrArn-0007oW-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrArn-0007oO-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:48:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrArl-00025a-1X; Thu, 24 May 2007 06:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62689 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HrAri-0005bz-9P; Thu, 24 May 2007 12:48:19 +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: <86lkfea4e3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000743-1, 2007-05-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HrAri-0005bz-9P. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HrAri-0005bz-9P 7155c9b6c507634a7deda143e38e0016 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:71720 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Jason Rumney wrote: >>> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: >>>>> People who use CVS can be expected to acquire a minimum of knowledge >>>>> for that. >>>> And how should they get that? >>> By reading the manual which is linked from the same page on Savannah! >> I meant of course how they should know that EMACS_22_BASE exists. And >> that this is what will be released. > > It isn't what will be released. What will be released is what is > _tagged_ as the release, and once it is tagged, there will be a > tarball for it. If we are in the process of being close to a release, > we also have pretest tarballs. Thanks, but I am not sure I understand the difference. > People who are dealing on a regular base with Emacs' CVS are also told > to read emacs-devel to know what they are dealing with. > > And sorry, if you have not noticed by now by the ongoing discussions > on emacs-devel that there is an EMACS_22_BASE branch that is going to > be used for releasing Emacs 22.1, then no amount of additional > handholding is going to help you. Are you sure you are not writing about your problem, not mine? I found nothing interesting from the point of the information matter I asked about here.