Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]

[Kim F. Storm]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:36:33 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> CVS emacs currently has emacs-version 21.3.50.12 or similar, so
>> what need changing?
>
> I might be missing something, but don't we assume somewhere that
> X.Y.Z.NN version signals a pretest, while X.Y.NN signals a released
> version?

Yes, and it is VERY confusion --- since X.Y.Z.NN is really a pretest
of X.(Y+1)

We once discussed the idea to use negative Z values for CVS and pretests,
e.g. instead of 21.3.50.NN we would have 21.4.-99.NN for CVS version
and pretests vould be 21.4.-98, 21.4.-97 etc.


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk