Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object

[Chong Yidong]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

> Does that mean we have to abandon the practice of making pretests and
> releases with all bugs fixed?  Many people are taking that for granted.
> I have been hoping, rather, to convince people to do more fixing
> so that we could maintain our old standards.

GCC, Firefox, Linux, and many other projects use a "critical
regressions only" policy to get releases out more quickly.  I've never
heard anyone complaining about this practice, whereas many people are
dissatisfied with the slow rate of Emacs releases.