Re: On the new startup and scratch buffer

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  jon@jrock.us,  angelo.graziosi@alice.it
> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:42 +0200
> 
> > Are such changes in behavior really necessary at this stage in the
> > pretest?
> 
> These fixes are caused by changes made earlier on the Emacs 22 branch.
> They are part of fixes that are intended to implement the behavior agreed
> on emacs-devel and approved several times to do on the Emacs 22 branch.
> Since they fix unintentional behavior they can be named bug fixes.

We can name it whatever we want, but it won't change the facts: a
non-trivial behavior change was introduced into a pretest that was
five minutes before its last .9X version, the one that should have
been followed by a release.  If I were in Stefan's and Yidong's shoes
now, I'd probably insist on another .9X pretest.

It's too bad that the behavior ``agreed on emacs-devel and approved
several times to do on the Emacs 22 branch'' was not added to the code
enough time ago, but this sad fact does not mean such changes should
be allowed to be installed now without additional discussions, IMO.