Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The way it worked until now was that if a decision was made to release
>> the version X.N from a branch, the version number on the trunk was
>> bumped up to X.N+1.50.  This involves running "M-x set-version RET"
>> from admin.el.

> So the presumption was that there won't be more than about 50 bugfixes
> before the next "primary release".

No, the .50 is used for all the "versions" until the first pretest.
The pretests then start at .90, then .91, .92, ... and can go to
.9999999999999999997, ... so we have a large enough pool of pretest
version numbers.


        Stefan