From: Michael Ekstrand <michael@elehack.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23.0.60
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:18:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878woy21r1.fsf@elehack.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 544711d1-0ba5-4e0f-8e47-b9a0845043ab@m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com
ramestica@gmail.com writes:
> 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.
When the move from CVS to bzr is complete, then it will be possible to
refer to a single Emacs state by bzr commit ID. But yes, in CVS there
is, apart from tags, no concept of a single state of the source tree.
- Michael
--
mouse, n: A device for pointing at the xterm in which you want to type.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 3:18 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
2009-01-26 3:18 ` Michael Ekstrand [this message]
[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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