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Re: Periodical releases
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Carsten Mattner |
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Re: Periodical releases |
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Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:40:20 +0100 |
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Maybe 2 or 4 releases as a minimum per year with less major
>> changes in each?
>
> For Emacs-21, the main time constraint was to get the new redisplay
> engine stable (with support for proportional fonts and such).
> Can't remember any such large change for Emacs-22, off hand.
> But for Emacs-23, there was a similar issue with the change to a utf-8
> based internal representation and the new font handling.
> For Emacs-24, it was the bidi support mostly.
>
> These are fairly significant structural changes which are difficult to
> perform piecemeal and tend to introduce significant breakage which takes
> months if not years to test&debug (maybe partly for lack of a good
> regression test suite, but also because of very complex semantics, most
> of which is the result of accidental interferences between
> "independent" features).
The solution for that is to let it evolve in a branch for longer than
one release cycle while merging finished changes to the release
branch and deliver those features sooner.
That way finished features like say package support, built-in colour
theme support, cc-mode and other mode updates, etc., which are less
invasive, are delivered in a stable release faster.
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