From: ramestica@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23.0.60
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:20:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544711d1-0ba5-4e0f-8e47-b9a0845043ab@m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ljszx8ag.fsf@elehack.net
On Jan 25, 6:41 pm, Michael Ekstrand <mich...@elehack.net> wrote:
> ramest...@gmail.com writes:
> > I cannot find a way for downloading emacs's source code for the
> > snapshot that was called 23.0.60. I thought that '23.0.60' would be
> > cvs tag but it did not work. I'm not sure that 'snapshot' is even the
> > correct word in this context.
>
> > I do not want to try the very head of cvs; after googling for a while
> > I decided that 23.0.60 should be good enough for me at this moment.
>
> 23.0.60 is the CVS head.
>
> And, in general, if you want to run CVS, I'd recommend running HEAD or a
> regularly-updated snapshot (I use the emacs-snapshot packages for
> Debian; they're usually updated weekly, and I have found that they work
> pretty well). Any given snapshot is liable to have bugs which are fixed
> later. If HEAD is broken badly, it's usually fixed quickly (in my
> experience, within the day); if you have a snapshot from a bad time,
> then it won't be fixed until the next snapshot.
>
> - Michael
>
> --
> mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type.
I see. I try the head then. It is strange not to be able to refer to a
certain and consistent status (as far as it was known to be consistent
at that moment) sof the cvs tree.
many thanks,
Rodrigo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-25 22:16 emacs 23.0.60 ramestica
2009-01-25 23:41 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-01-26 0:20 ` ramestica [this message]
2009-01-26 3:18 ` Michael Ekstrand
[not found] ` <utz7mv1yu.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net>
2009-01-26 19:09 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-01-26 9:41 ` Peter Dyballa
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