Re: How do I install gnus cvs?

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Feb 10 2006, David Z Maze wrote:

> rodolfo.medina@gmail.com writes:
>
>> . Then I started emacs, started gnus, did 'M-x gnus-version'
>> and it says: 'No Gnus v0.4'.
>> Is that normal? Why 'No Gnus' instead of 'Gnus'?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Gnus Versions") ]
|    If you happen upon a version of Gnus that has a prefixed name -
| "(ding) Gnus", "September Gnus", "Red Gnus", "Quassia Gnus",
| "Pterodactyl Gnus", "Oort Gnus", "No Gnus" - don't panic.  Don't let it
| know that you're frightened.  Back away.  Slowly.  Whatever you do,
| don't run.  Walk away, calmly, until you're out of its reach.  Find a
| proper released version of Gnus and snuggle up to that instead.
`----

> Pterodactyl Gnus --> Gnus 5.8.x --> Gnus 5.9
> Oort Gnus        --> Gnus 5.10.x

| Oort Gnus        --> Gnus 5.10.x --> Gnus 5.11

> No Gnus

[...]
> I think the current plan is that FSF Emacs 22 

s/FSF Emacs/Emacs/, please.

,----[ (info "(efaq)Difference between Emacs and XEmacs") ]
|    If you want to talk about these two versions and distinguish them,
| please call them "Emacs" and "XEmacs."  To contrast "XEmacs" with "GNU
| Emacs" would be misleading, since XEmacs too has its origin in the work
| of the GNU Project.  Terms such as "Emacsen" and "(X)Emacs" are not
| wrong, but they are not very clear, so it is better to write "Emacs and
| XEmacs."
`----

> will ship with Gnus 5.11, and after that happens No Gnus will become
> Gnus 5.12.0.
>
> (I don't remember any more what features No Gnus has that aren't in
> the latest 5.10 release, 

See (info "(gnus)No Gnus") or GNUS-NEWS.

> or even what release that is.  :-)

5.10.6

Bye, Reiner.
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