Re: No calc in pretest?

[Kim F. Storm]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > Alternatively, we could adapt the linux numbering where odd-minor are
> > development versions and even-minor are releases, e.g.
> 
> What would be the point of that?  As far as I can tell, emacs simply doesn't
> have `development releases', except for the flurry of quick releases for
> pretesting.  For those, I think the current scheme, of using high-numbered
> minor versions, is much better than the scheme linux uses.

Emacs doesn't use high-numbered "minor" versions for pretests.

It uses high-numbered "minor-minor" numbers (which I think is a good
idea), but the "minor" number of the pretest is plain wrong!

The pretest  has the same minor number as the previous release, so
code cannot test emacs-minor-version for any practical purpose.

[The current CVS has emacs-minor-version == 3, although we all
expect the next release to be 21.4].

I don't know any code which breaks because of this though.

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