Re: help system question

[Kevin Rodgers]

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
> > > Date: 31 Dec 2006 13:00:58 -0800
> > >
> > > Lots of people seem to have versions of Emacs 22 themselves, and don't
> > > seem to know that it hasn't been officially released.  So people might
> > > think there is little difference between the Emacs22 they have and the
> > > finished one called 22.1.  So, it might be a good idea to give the new
> > > version a higher version number.
> > I don't see a problem here (or misunderstand you): the current Emacs
> > 22 versions are numbered 22.0.NN, so when 22.1 is released, they will
> > know it's newer.
>
> Yes, but the implication is that it's only 0.5 of a version number
> newer.  That doesn't indicate that the official v22.1 should be
> significantly more bug tested than 22.0.NN ones were.

That's exactly what it indicates: the 22.0.NN versions are pretest
versions (the most recent NN is 92), and 22.1 will be available
when the release criteria are met.

--
Kevin