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Re: At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says "For older news, see the
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: At the bottom of the file OOOONEWS it says "For older news, see the file OOOONEWS". |
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25 Jan 2001 07:07:11 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>> 8 lines matching "199\\|2000\\|release" in buffer NEWS. 1:GNU
>> Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 25 May 2000
>> 2:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software
>> Foundation, Inc. 8:* Emacs 20.7 is a bug-fix release with few
>> user-visible changes 27:* Emacs 20.6 is a bug-fix release with one
>> user-visible change 32:* Emacs 20.5 is a bug-fix release with no
>> user-visible changes. 4170:* Emacs 19.34 is a bug-fix release with
>> no user-visible changes. 4268:previously released version, except
>> in the message composition area. 4948:Copyright (C) 1996, 1997,
>> 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> one can see that many releases were released with only a "25 May
>> 2000"... next time use ChangeLog mode or something to give at least
>> one date per release for the historian / archeologist.
Eli> The release date of each version is in the ChangeLog files, which
Eli> see (search for "Version .* released"). NEWS is not for
Eli> historians; ChangeLog's are.
OK, too bad there is none in ./etc, e.g. Mandrake 7.2:
cd /usr/share/emacs/20.7/
grep -n -e 'Version .* released' */* /dev/null
etc/ORDERS:947: Windows 3.x, OS/2, QEMM, & QDPMI). Version 2 was released
in Feb. 1996,
etc/ORDERS:1717: Version 2.0.9 of Octave was released in July. It includes
support for
Directory /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/
3B-MAXMEM LEDIT ORDERS.EUROPE TUTORIAL.sl gnu.xpm
AIX.DUMP LINUX-GNU ORDERS.JAPAN TUTORIAL.th gnus-tut.txt
BABYL LNEWS OTHER.EMACSES WHY-FREE ledit.l
CENSORSHIP LPF PROBLEMS Xkeymap.txt ms-7bkermit
CHARSETS MACHINES README celibacy.1 ms-kermit
CODINGS MAILINGLISTS SERVICE condom.1 news.texi
COOKIES MH-E-NEWS SUN-SUPPORT copying.paper refcard.bit
COPYING MH-E-ONEWS TERMS e/ refcard.ps
DEBUG MORE.STUFF TODO echo.msg refcard.tex
DISTRIB MOTIVATION TUTORIAL edt-user.doc rgb.txt
DOC-20.7.1 NEWS TUTORIAL.cs emacs.bash spook.lines
FAQ ONEWS TUTORIAL.de emacs.csh tasks.texi
FTP OONEWS TUTORIAL.ja emacs.icon termcap.src
GNU OOONEWS TUTORIAL.ko emacs.xbm ulimit.hack
HELLO OOOONEWS TUTORIAL.nl emacstool.1 vipcard.tex
INTERVIEW OOOOONEWS TUTORIAL.pl enriched.doc viperCard.tex
JOKES ORDERS TUTORIAL.ro future-bug yow.lines
So one would have need the source distribution. OK, thanks, never mind.
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