From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Angeli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS is the `released version' Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:28:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <20070513084905.C95BC14297@owie.lan> <857irdqd0d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179055753 18306 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2007 11:29:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:29:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 13 13:29:12 2007 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 4.50) id 1HnCGG-000548-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:29:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnCNt-0004eQ-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 07:37:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnCNq-0004eL-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 07:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnCNo-0004e9-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 07:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnCNo-0004e6-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 07:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnCG9-0006te-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 07:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HnCG2-0002JL-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:28:58 +0200 Original-Received: from p54a50bc2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.165.11.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:28:58 +0200 Original-Received: from angeli by p54a50bc2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:28:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a50bc2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ogMBD92412Q5T/STt4Y7DAq9LOU= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70956 Archived-At: * David Kastrup (2007-05-13) writes: > The advantage is just one of decoupled updates of centrally organized > packages to the centrally organized core. > > I doubt that this could not equally well be achieved with a policy of > more frequent releases from a release branch. It does not cater for people who think that over 100MB is an obscene size for an editor. It is quite lean for a desktop environment, though. -- Ralf