From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: next emacs version? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:01:46 +0900 Message-ID: References: <56D10E2523764AC98D99CEBC55DBAD93@us.oracle.com> <83iq8sigyq.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3z0i3nu.fsf@gnu.org> <911BA1D06CEB4306924D0069BA2D3DFF@us.oracle.com> <83bpeki18a.fsf@gnu.org> <83aau4hv38.fsf@gnu.org> <0E10B96B5C814EE8B95B57972F13E189@us.oracle.com> <5E984B3C-4B86-4FA6-8675-4C8501CC2285@raeburn.org> <878w9jix51.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269320522 7945 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2010 05:02:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Ken Raeburn' , Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 06:01:58 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 1NtwFZ-0002sk-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtwFZ-0003u0-El for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtwFU-0003tv-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44110 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtwFT-0003tn-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtwFR-0008BE-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:59177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtwFR-0008At-Ao; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o2N51Ls2000666; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:01:47 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:01:47 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.30] [10.114.112.30]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:01:46 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E3F1852E21F; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:01:46 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <878w9jix51.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:34:34 +0900") Original-Lines: 15 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:122530 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > The approximation used is for the Emacs developers to agree on a > conventional ordering, which is called "the mainline". If you know > your user is "on the mainline", then dates can be used to do the > ordering, or the revision number. "Trunk" (yes, I know it's a silly quibble, but the name "mainline" is just so stupid sounding that I'd hate to see people pick it up...) -Miles -- You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.