From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating release version to 22.1 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 07:38:37 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87vf92sqby.fsf@marant.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107902455 6334 80.91.229.2 (8 Feb 2005 22:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 08 23:40:54 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cye1v-0003b5-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyeGK-0002bO-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyeEo-0002DR-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyeEZ-00023s-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:53:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyeEU-00022x-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:53:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.200] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cye0F-0005A6-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so67274wri for ; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:38:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=e9hYRTG5qzlrFqPBFMQFRMmUa6lziASTDiguvBWfj9NrJpjm2qss7YIexWF+KH9FgQ2uyEq380yceQInNepkRPODZ8y4UolcaCkvNiRduzUuxsKbF6VEml8cpJJFxYXccct7D2M1ML4eP+bZ4NXxjPcf3k4nTgiND4MQ5dzh10c= Original-Received: by 10.54.19.28 with SMTP id 28mr157891wrs; Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:38:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:38:37 -0800 (PST) Original-To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= In-Reply-To: <87vf92sqby.fsf@marant.org> 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33099 On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:18:41 +0100, J=E9r=F4me Marant wro= te: > What's the rational for not using 22.0.x for development versions? > It would be so much simpler ... Seriously; all this random arguing over wacky scheme X or wacky scheme Y seems a bit odd in the face of such an obvious answer. Note that given Emacs' traditional numbering practices, it only works with "super major" release like 22.1 -- a minor release would need either some other scheme, or a change in the general versioning rules Emacs uses -- but do we really need to spend time bickering right now? [and judging from past threads on this issue, people _love_ to bicker over it.] Another comment on the wacky schemes: Debian uses a "-" separator in versions for their own reasons, and a "_" separator in package names, so it might be nice to avoid using these characters. They have designated the "~" to be used to denote "pre-versions", so if Emacs uses such a syntax, it might adopt this too, e.g.: "22.1~pre1" (the suffix always ~ sorts before even no suffix at all). -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.