From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ramestica@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23.0.60 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:20:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <544711d1-0ba5-4e0f-8e47-b9a0845043ab@m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> References: <87ljszx8ag.fsf@elehack.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232994461 15742 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2009 18:27:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:27:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 19:28:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRWCG-0000AW-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:28:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRWAw-0006lG-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:27:11 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.104.20.168 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232929226 25321 127.0.0.1 (26 Jan 2009 00:20:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.104.20.168; posting-account=GyIV7QoAAACC7zm6nA92JhktCMy0igbg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166321 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:13:05 -0500 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:61655 Archived-At: On Jan 25, 6:41=A0pm, Michael Ekstrand 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). =A0Any given snapshot is liable to have bugs which are fixe= d > later. =A0If 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