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Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90 |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:41:49 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2009-02-02 05:57 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Emacs pretest 23.0.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the
>>> following location:
>>>
>>> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.90.tar.gz
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> But ".90"? boy, that _is_ ambitious (or exceedingly optimistic)!
>
> For the Emacs 22 pretest, at least, we also counted from .90. If we
> need more than ten of these, the version numbers will continue into
> 22.0.100, and so forth. (I recall a ludicrously long thread on
> emacs-devel about numbering the pretests; one of the proposals, if
> memory serves, involved using negative numbers ;-)
The last Emacs 22 pretest tarball had a number of 22.0.990, the reason
being that 22.0.100 sorts before 22.0.99 ASCIIbetically.
Sven
- Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Chong Yidong, 2009/02/01
- Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/01
- Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Giorgos Keramidas, 2009/02/01
- Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Will Farrington, 2009/02/01
- Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/02/02
- Re: Emacs pretest 22.0.90, Ulrich Mueller, 2009/02/02