From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next emacs version? Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269005017 3046 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2010 13:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 14:23:33 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NscAE-0004aX-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:22:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NscAD-0005c6-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NscA6-0005au-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57022 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NscA5-0005aN-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NscA3-0007Wv-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:52772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NscA3-0007Wm-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZJ003006GO2P00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:22:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.182.236]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZJ00JJY6H9XXF0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:22:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:122276 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:31 -0700 > > What will the next Emacs version be? 23.2 > I just got a bug report for my Dired+ code, because of a recent change to > files.el for the regexp `dired-move-to-filename-regexp'. I have a fix that takes > the new regexp into account, but I need to test for the Emacs version that has > the new regexp (since I support multiple versions). > > The person who filed the bug report has GNU Emacs version 24.0.50.1 > (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.6)... He says he just updated from BZR. > > But I thought the next release would be Emacs 23.2, not 24. That's not a contradiction. Emacs 23.2 will be delivered from a branch, not from the trunk. Version 24.0.50 is from the development trunk. > What is the proper > test (or a reasonable test) to use in the code, for this change? It's OK if I > don't support the change until the release is out. It's the test for the > official release I'm most interested in. (But I'm also interested in advice > about testing against an in-development version.) If you want to discern v23.x from v24.x, emacs-major-version is the first thing I'd try.