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

[Juri Linkov]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>> This could be another argument for using 22.1 for the next release.
>
> Hmm.  I thought I saw some other posts that suggested that you were
> going to number the next release 22.1.  If not, and if there really is
> the potential for significant breakage, then please reconsider.  If
> there may be trouble, what would be the argument against naming it
> 22.1?

Everyone already refers to Emacs 22 as Unicode version of Emacs.
Releasing 21.4 as 22.1 will cause a lot of confusion: people will
start downloading Emacs 22.1 as "Unicode Emacs" and later discover
it's actually not what they thought.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/