From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 21.4 vs CVS HEAD of a month ago. Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:05:11 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109012574 31678 80.91.229.2 (21 Feb 2005 19:02:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 21 20:02:54 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3IpS-0000j4-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:02:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3J6S-0002Ln-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:20:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Oq6ByZvhcma7FAZGT4S6PQUDmXQHBU99R+7f/FbpdEzzty6+lA X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i7VfagfoMqiO27CCQdproW44p2I= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128687 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24222 Peter Seibel writes: > I've been running a version of Emacs I built from CVS HEAD back on > January 18th. I saw the Februrary 8th announcement of 21.4 and grabbed > and built it a few days later. However it seems to still be lacking > certain features, such as SMTP authentication, that are present in my > CVS version. Also the version of Gnus is older in 21.4 than my CVS > Emacs. Have I screwed up something in my installation or is 21.4 still > lagging CVS HEAD of January 18th? 21.4 is 21.3 with a single security related bugfix outside of the Emacs binary itself. What people have been talking about as the coming 21.4 for so long is now the coming 22.1. The circumstances of the bug disclosure did not allow for a discussion of the release process among a larger circle of developers in advance (the respective mailing lists are publicly available and archived) and was done by very few people. A more wider discussion might have led to the version number becoming something like 21.3a instead. However, given that the current development version is really a completely different beast than the 21.1-21.2-21.3-21.4 chain would suggest, this future version change might more properly reflect what people might be expecting from such a number change. And even if there are any surprise releases in between without significant progress, one will be able to identify them by still being 21.something. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum