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Re: [RFU 1.7] {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.0.92-1
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:41:30PM -0400, Mark Harig wrote:
>Ken Brown wrote:
>>On 5/14/2009 5:57 PM, Mark Harig wrote:
>>>In case you were unaware, Emacs version 23.0.93.1 (pre-release test)
>>>has been available for a few weeks. It might be worth considering
>>>providing both 23.0.92 and 23.0.93 so that you can work out how to
>>>maintain two versions: "stable" and "unstable" (not that .92 is more
>>>stable than .93).
>>
>>Yes, I knew about 23.0.93. I built it for myself and have been using
>>it, just to make sure there were no regressions. If 23.0.92 proves
>>stable enough to be promoted to current, then I'll think about doing
>>something like what you suggested. But let's wait and see what happens
>>when it gets released and people start using it. The transition from
>>21.2 to 23.0 might take some time for people to adapt to. Emacs 21.2
>>was released 7 years ago, and there's been quite a bit of development
>>since then.
>
>People who are willing to use the not-yet-released Cygwin 1.7 and the
>not-yet-released Emacs 23 ought to be expecting some instability.
Please don't argue with a package maintainer about what they should be
releasing especially when you are talking about more work for them.
>Alternatively, if Emacs 22.3 does not have compilation problems with
>Cygwin 1.7, then it could be provided as the "Curr" version, and one or
>more versions of Emacs 23 could be provided as "Exp."
Alternatively, if this is really important to you then you could build
the package yourself.
cgf