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Re: Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs release numbering 21.4 vs. 22.1 |
Date: |
25 Feb 2004 17:23:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I think we want this change to be released in Emacs soon, if we
> > are going to put it into Texinfo now. We should put it into a
> > 21.4 release that we are going to make soon from the RC branch.
>
> I believe many emacs users are expecting 21.4 be released from the
> CVS head as a major feature update.
I am afraid so.
> To remove that confusion, I suggest that we decide _NOW_ that when
> CVS head will eventually be released as 22.1, and that we start
> preparing for that now.
>
> We definitely have enough new functionality in the CVS head to
> justify upgrading the major number (and I suppose that the unicode
> branch will be merged to the trunk before releasing 22.1 -- right?).
Personally, I think this decision would have saved me a bit of
trouble. Whenever showing around new features and being asked when
they would be available, my predictions have been wrong since the next
version happened to be just a bug fix. 22.1 would be a good reply.
Even if we are not talking about added functionality, at the time we
release HEAD a substantial change in stability, behavior, keybindings
and look is to be expected. I think it would prepare people better
if we changed the major version number as well.
But we should then really incorporate everything that has a
reasonable chance of working. The unicode branch sounds like a
candidate, as does the bidi branch. They really should be available
without separate compilation if that does not mean a functional
regression in other areas.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum