From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Ekstrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23.0.60 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:18:58 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <878woy21r1.fsf@elehack.net> References: <87ljszx8ag.fsf@elehack.net> <544711d1-0ba5-4e0f-8e47-b9a0845043ab@m22g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232993377 11470 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2009 18:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:09:37 +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 19:10:49 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 1LRVuo-0002VI-HP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRVtW-0006oh-Ld for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:09:10 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.skynet.be!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 3k4OpuCxx2rBT/R1RUDefw.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:19:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:A2nD5m224ykplCAWHYCvRkthMEI= sha1:ATLfjEoqINjFkONHb83ibQULYag= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166326 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:61649 Archived-At: ramestica@gmail.com writes: > On Jan 25, 6:41 pm, 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).  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. Confused by the strange files? I cryptographically sign my messages. For more information see .