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


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: address@hidden: Re: Possible help with stable Emacs releases.]
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:37:31 -0400

    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.

One drawback of this idea is that the pretest version numbers are moving
towards a fixed limit of zero, which puts a bound on them.  What we
really want is numbers like 21.4.-1/1, 21.4.-1/2, 21.4.-1/3, where
the pretest version numbers form series converging towards zero.
Or perhaps 21.4-1/2, 21.4-1/3, 21.4-1/4, which converge towards 21.4.

    - use MAJOR.MINOR where MINOR is only incremented for bugfix releases and
      MAJOR is incremented for non-bugfix releases.  I.e. the next release would
      then be 22.1 and unicode would be 23.1.

That would be a good scheme, I think.




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