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: New pretest tarball 22.0.93 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:36:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87hcuia6c4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170167851 20041 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 14:37:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 15:37:29 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 1HBu6t-0004bA-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:37:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBu6s-0007bs-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBu6i-0007bn-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBu6g-0007bb-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBu6g-0007bY-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HBu6f-0004gx-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:10 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEFC2CF17A; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:37:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286293FE0; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:36:54 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EEEA64C6D25; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:36:53 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Tue\, 30 Jan 2007 01\:03\:43 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:65638 Archived-At: >>> Emacs 21.1 was a major rewrite of the display engine, that's one >>> reason why it took so long to release. >> >> I know, I wasn't a developer back then but I pretested each and every >> one of these seventeen tarballs (painstakingly downloading them with a >> 56K modem because I had no working xdelta) :) > I don't have a working xdelta now, on Mac OS X (10.4.8). Which is why I always favored patches over xdelta (I used to provide patches for pretests, a long time ago). Also gzipped patches tend to be somewhat shorter. Stefan