From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jorge" Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:53:56 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87lgedx2vn.fsf@gnu.org> <871sh1pid1.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9jku2gt.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgeehe5g.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f47DE-0008Tr-4X for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:54:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f47DB-0004YY-2z for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:54:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lgedx2vn.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ludo@gnu.org, Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix@gnu.org March 27, 2018 6:51 AM, ludo@gnu.org wrote:=0A> Pierre Neidhardt skribis:=0A> =0A>> Considering the importance of Emacs in th= is community, I think it would=0A>> make sense to provide a cutting-edge = version.=0A> =0A> Do you mean a snapshot of the =E2=80=98master=E2=80=99 = branch?=0A> =0A> We don=E2=80=99t do that usually, and I would instead su= ggest using=0A> =E2=80=98--with-source=E2=80=99 for people who would like= that.=0A> =0A> What do people think?=0AI am sorry for having taken this = long to reply. I (the original poster) was=0Athinking not of =E2=80=98ma= ster=E2=80=99 branch snapshots. GNU Emacs has already branched the=0Aupc= oming Emacs 26, and the =E2=80=98master=E2=80=99 branch has been opened f= or the development=0Aof what will be Emacs 27. I was thinking of the lat= est official pretest version=0Aof the almost-released branch (currently E= macs 26.0.91). In my experience so=0Afar, these pretest versions are rel= iable enough for daily usage.=0A=0AProviding Emacs pretest versions would= enable a larger audience to test them,=0Athus helping the GNU project. = It would also enable more people to=0Aget Emacs from Guix; I need Emacs 2= 6 for its better proxy support (so I can=0Ainstall ELPA packages from my = work desktop) and I really like its many other=0Afeatures, so if Guix onl= y has 25.3, I will continue to compile 26.0.9x manually=0A(and miss the G= uix features).=0A=0AI think it would be clearly beneficial to package 26.= 0.9x, unless Guix lacks the=0Amanpower. I unfortunately don't think I'll= be able to help much, beyond testing=0Aand filing bug reports.=0A=0ARega= rds=0A=0A- I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome fe= edback=0A- Please adopt free formats like PDF, ODF, Org, LaTeX, Opus, Web= M and 7z=0A- Free/libre software for Android: https://f-droid.org/=0A- [[= https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][What is free software?]]