From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Version naming Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:42:13 -0500 Message-ID: <8738ap3qgq.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413412958 8431 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2014 22:42:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 00:42:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XeXH3-0000H7-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeXH3-0008Nq-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeXGv-0008Mh-6C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:42:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeXGp-0004d3-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from defaultvalue.org ([70.85.129.156]:58193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeXGo-0004ch-VJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: rlb@defaultvalue.org) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15DFE20007; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:42:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by trouble.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B825F14E1B2; Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:42:13 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 70.85.129.156 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175436 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The numbering doesn't really matter, but I think it was kinda nice when > the major version number was only bumped on really big-ish transitions. > (I.e., mule, utf8, static binding...) That's how we've taken it in Debian at least (and derivatives), which has allowed simultaneous installs (say emacs19 and emacs20), etc. As a result, on the Debian side, each major increment does represent more work: increased load on the mirrors, administrative overhead of package migrations, removals, etc. While that certainly shouldn't unduly influence the upstream decisions here, I thought I'd mention it for reference. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4