From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Do you recommend Emacs snapshot? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:02:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87txhgy9it.fsf@web.de> References: <87y56sbtjd.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379613819 17749 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2013 18:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:03:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 19 20:03:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VMiZm-0002DR-QH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:03:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52489 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiZm-0001YG-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiZW-0001Xt-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiZP-0005Ng-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiZP-0005MW-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:03:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiZH-00017k-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-13-248.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.13.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-13-248.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:03:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-13-248.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ugmr19HuLhdfpNPst/vtcOcR/Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93461 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > Morale: if you don't have time to deal with those issues and help the > developers to fix them, you'll better stick to an stable release and > upgrade only when you see a strong reason for it. Right. Most of the time, it's very stable. It's an absolute exception that it's not usable, but it may happen, of course. For me, fixed bugs and new features count more than the potential new bugs and problems. In any case it's good to have another version as fallback. BTW, trunk (from which emacs-snapshot is compiled from) is more stable in the time before the next release (after the freeze), and less stable after a release when new features are added. You could also build emacs yourself. Using the precompiled package is easier, of course, but it also has the advantage that it will work with Emacs add on packages installed at your system. That advantage is not so important anymore in the times of Gnu Elpa, however. Regards, Michael.