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Re: No calc in pretest?
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Jon Cast |
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Re: No calc in pretest? |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Jul 2002 18:16:08 -0500 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Perhaps we can use planned gaps in minor version numbers. For
> instance, maybe the next non-bug-fix release should be Emacs 21.10.
> That way, we can fix the number now. We certainly won't get past
> 21.9 with bug-fix releases.
I don't like this idea---leaving gaps in the version numbers would be
confusing for users on two counts:
1. Users would think ``hey, they went from 21.3 to 21.10---did I miss
something?''
2. Once users learn we're /intentionally/ leaving gaps in the version
numbers, they might suspect we're trying to make it seem like more
work is going into Emacs than actually is. That's not good.
> This is not fundamentally different from inserting an additional
> number after the major version,
Why? I think one is less similar to what users expect than the
current scheme, while one is more similar. That seems like a fairly
fundamental difference.
> as if the current version were 21.1.2 and the next non-bug-fix would
> be 21.2.1. But it is less of a change than that.
Neither one is a big change technically. On the other hand, leaving
gaps would, IMO /seem/ like a bigger change to users, and a change for
the worse.
> Also, we can leave a gap on occasion, but we don't have to do it all
> the time.
Do you mean we would try to predict when a gap may be needed, and only
leave one then? I fear human fallibility in that case.
Jon Cast
- Re: No calc in pretest?, (continued)
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/07/02
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/02
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jason Rumney, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Miles Bader, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/03
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/04
- Re: No calc in pretest?,
Jon Cast <=
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/05
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/05
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Miles Bader, 2002/07/04
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/05
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/05
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Francesco Potorti`, 2002/07/05
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/08
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Jon Cast, 2002/07/08
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Richard Stallman, 2002/07/09
- Re: No calc in pretest?, Kim F. Storm, 2002/07/04