From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:38:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161978679 27628 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2006 19:51:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 21:51:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdXXs-00079w-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:39:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdXXr-0003Ek-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdXXa-0003Dn-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdXXX-0003C8-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdXXW-0003C1-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GdXXW-0000Hx-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx19.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 98B9D8A0035; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:38:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri\, 27 Oct 2006 13\:59\:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (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: , 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:61251 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > With Richard's agreement, I've bumped the version number to 22.0.90 > and rolled a pretest tarball. The tarball can be found at > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-22.0.90.tar.gz Thanks Chong! This is excellent news!!! It builds and runs on my GNU/Linux (redhat 9.0) laptop. > (I took out some additional info about xdelta's between this tarball > and the previous pretest tarball, because there is no previous > tarball). I wonder if we really need to provide xdeltas anymore. For most people there days, the time it takes to get them working (I remember having problems with the last pretest ...) compared to the time it takes to simply download a new tarball doesn't warrent the time needed to make them... > The question is, who do we announce the pretest to? Is the emacs > pretesters mailing list still extant? I think so. > If not, I think we should just > make a public announcement about the availability of the pretest > tarball on the Gnu Emacs webpage. comp.emacs, gnu.announce, and gnu.emacs.announce seem to be good places... > We could also contact distributions > such as Debian, which package occasional CVS snapshots of Emacs 22, to > switch to tracking the numbered pretest tarballs for those packages > instead. I don't know what's best here, but I'd wait until we have have another pretest or the final release. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk