From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help system question Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:17:58 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1167211521.097281.239230@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1167227736.408325.258730@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1167598858.494283.278150@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1167656440.834393.143110@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167765565 22897 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2007 19:19:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 02 20:19:23 2007 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 1H1pAO-0005Ko-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:19:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H1pAN-0008MR-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H1pAC-0008M2-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H1pAB-0008LJ-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H1pAB-0008LG-5f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H1pAA-0001zU-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H1pA1-0002lG-P0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:18:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <1167656440.834393.143110@a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> 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:40104 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: "Robert Thorpe" >>> Date: 31 Dec 2006 13:00:58 -0800 >>> >>> Lots of people seem to have versions of Emacs 22 themselves, and don't >>> seem to know that it hasn't been officially released. So people might >>> think there is little difference between the Emacs22 they have and the >>> finished one called 22.1. So, it might be a good idea to give the new >>> version a higher version number. >> I don't see a problem here (or misunderstand you): the current Emacs >> 22 versions are numbered 22.0.NN, so when 22.1 is released, they will >> know it's newer. > > Yes, but the implication is that it's only 0.5 of a version number > newer. That doesn't indicate that the official v22.1 should be > significantly more bug tested than 22.0.NN ones were. That's exactly what it indicates: the 22.0.NN versions are pretest versions (the most recent NN is 92), and 22.1 will be available when the release criteria are met. -- Kevin