From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Releasing Emacs 22.2 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186121757 29380 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2007 06:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 06:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 08:15:56 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 1IGqS3-00051o-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:15:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGqS2-0005yc-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGqRz-0005yX-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IGqRx-0005yL-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IGqRx-0005yI-LL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34] helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IGqRu-0006o5-93; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.204.109]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070803061545.JUUX13659.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 039598987; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:15:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 02 Aug 2007 23\:37\:43 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: 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:75983 Archived-At: >> I hope to release Emacs 22.2 in a few weeks, > I hope there was a "a pretest of" missing above. > I am not sure a pretest is needed, with a few new packages and a few > dozen bug fixes. But it can't hurt. However, all that is a side > issue. The new VC backends are all activated, so their code is executed every time a file is opened: there's a good chance that some bug in there will cause problems. I've just fixed such a bug in vc-bzr yesterday. > The main point is that people need to fix the bugs > in order to make Emacs 22.2 possible at all. Stefan PS: of course, we could disable the new VC backend by default, so as to avoid those risks.