From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:39:19 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1096291271.415813c757a26@imp6-q.free.fr> <20040927134714.GA20012@fencepost> <87hdphx91c.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87655wswkv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a6f8$Blat.v2.2.2$f6ef61c0@zahav.net.il> <87ekkjiy9x.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <01c4a717$Blat.v2.2.2$8e7c1740@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096580443 28161 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 21:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rlb@defaultvalue.org, jmarant@free.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 23:40:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD8fB-0003Xi-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD8la-0007jt-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD8kX-00078J-V9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD8kX-00077w-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD8kX-00077r-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CD8e2-00037S-BH; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0F8CAB13F; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:39:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Yow: Look DEEP into the OPENINGS!! Do you see any ELVES or EDSELS... or a HIGHBALL??... In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27760 Stefan Monnier writes: > True, that's another way to continue the sequence after .90, ..., .99 > and IIRC both have been used in the past. I like the .999 scheme bette= r, > tho ;-) Since version numbers are not fractions, but rather sequences of numbers, continuing with .100 is more natural. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."