From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jerome.marant@free.fr: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:39:06 +0000 (UTC) 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> <1096489325.415b196d95987@imp3-q.free.fr> <200409300053.i8U0rWh20758@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <01c4a6f7$Blat.v2.2.2$8c5c2b00@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096573172 5730 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 19:39:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:39:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 21:39:24 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 1CD6lv-0001J8-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:39:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6sK-0001Za-TG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:46:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6sD-0001Z2-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6sC-0001YS-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD6sC-0001YP-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [69.168.110.189] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CD6lj-0000cg-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:31 -0400) 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:27742 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27742 - use MAJOR.MINOR where MINOR is only incremented for bugfix releases and MAJOR is incremented for non-bugfix releases. I.e. the next release would then be 22.1 and unicode would be 23.1. That would be a good scheme, I think. The goal is to provide a decent program. One whose version numbers confuse people, so they think a major upgrade is a minor bug fix, is no good. Historically, Emacs has signified major changes with integral number changes: version 19 was the biggest of those changes (from a user's point of view). Why not make more use of the three component numbering scheme we already have and use in CVS? -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc