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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Considering the importance of Emacs in this community, I think it would
>> make sense to provide a cutting-edge version.
>
> Do you mean a snapshot of the ‘master’ branch?
>
> We don’t do that usually, and I would instead suggest using
> ‘--with-source’ for people who would like that.
>
> What do people think?

I agree.  Also, if we use Emacs often, it doesn't mean we develop Emacs.
Emacs developers need more than a cutting-edge version anyway, they
build it manually.