Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux

[Stefan Monnier]

> So next I went to find proof of which is latest and bleeding edge.
> and saw the version. emacs-snapshot is of course the 
> latest(23.1.50.1) 
> but uses the old GTK+ (2.18.0) version. The emacs package
> version is older (23.1.1) but uses a newer GTK+ (2.20.0) version.

Not sure which "emacs-snapshot" package this is: 23.1.50 is very old
for a snapshot (it predates 23.2 which was released early 2010).
I'd expect an "emacs-snapshot" to be "24.0.50" nowadays.

We (Emacs maintainers) strongly discourage people from using old
snapshots (snapshots tend to have more bugs, so it's great if people use
them to try and help us fix bugs before the release, but using an old
snapshot is a wasted effort since the bugs may have been fixed already).


        Stefan