From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:17:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lkn1tzav.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162034283 6448 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2006 11:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 13:18:00 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 1GdmC7-00029c-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdmC6-0004Lc-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdmBq-0004KF-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdmBm-0004Ca-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdmBm-0004CM-18 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GdmBl-00041O-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-238-159.inter.net.il [84.229.238.159]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GCM83062 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:17:18 +0200 (IST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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:61279 Archived-At: > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:38:01 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I wonder if we really need to provide xdeltas anymore. Why not? The Emacs tarball is significantly larger now than in previous versions (because Calc, Leim, ELisp, and Lisp Intro are now parts of it), so downloading a full tarball might be a pain. > 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... If you have a fast connection, yes. But not everyone has it. > > 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 never published pretests on those fori, only the official releases. Why should we change the policy now, that everyone who is interested can read emacs-devel anyway?